Afternoon briefing Tuesday 2nd June

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0:45Henry died after police initially dismissed his comments, saying he'd been stabbed. Digwa falsely claimed he'd been racially abused. Meanwhile, the Attorney General's office is considering the jail sentence given to Digwa. The 23-year-old was handed a minimum term of 21 years. Nigel Farage, meanwhile, the head of Reform UK, has called for a change of culture in British policing after Henry Novak was left to bleed to death by police. We need a change in culture. Enough of anti-white prejudice. A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives. An end to DEI and positive discrimination, but a country that treats everybody equally and fairly before the law.

1:32Jaz Singh, an advisor to the Sikh Federation UK, has told Times Radio he fears the Sikh community as a whole could be affected. We understand the emotion that people have at this time and the grief, especially Henry's family. And again, I want to offer our deepest condolences to the family on behalf of the Sikh community and the Sikh Federation. But we should not let that blind our thinking, our judgment and our understanding of a whole community that's been well integrated, well respected in the UK for decades. I think 100 years six have been here. The death toll from a Russian strike overnight on Ukraine's southeastern city of Dnipro has risen to 11, including two children.

2:11The regional governor says the bodies of an 80-year-old boy and a woman have been pulled from the rubble of a destroyed four-story building. There were also multiple deaths in Kyiv. This 71-year-old pensioner sheltered in a metro station in the Ukrainian capital. You see, we are surviving on our own. Ukrainians are surviving on their own. Although aid is coming from the West, I don't think they're helping much. If international pressure were stronger, I think it would all be over sooner. And a court in Edinburgh has heard how Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief executive, bought three vehicles with funds embezzled from the party.

2:49Prosecutors have set out how he created fake invoices to cover his offences. Advocate Alan Cameron Casey gave details of the motorhome, which was driven for just four miles. After its purchase, the accused suggested to other party employees that the motorhome could have been used for campaigning purposes, but it was not. When seized by police officers, there were no campaign materials or other SNP paraphernalia within, and the motorhome was not branded. It was configured exactly as a motorhome used for pleasure would be. The day after he had ordered the motorhome, the accused purchased from Amazon three guides to inspirational journeys around Scotland, England and Wales and Ireland in a camper van or motorhome.

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