Evening briefing Tuesday 2nd June

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0:45Shabana Mahmood told MPs that one officer who was not involved in the incident had been forced out of his home after he was incorrectly identified as one of those present. Vikram Digwa, a Sikh man, had attacked Novak with a dagger in Southampton last December before telling police officers that the 18-year-old student had racially abused him. She also rejected claims by Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, that racism is regarded by the police as more serious than murder. There have been accusations, I know, of two-tier policing. It will be for the IOPC to determine the facts with regard to this specific case.

1:20But let me say this on the question of preferential treatment more widely. The police in this country have a sacred duty, to police without fear or favour. Everyone in this country is equal before the law. Faraj said the arrest of Novak for alleged racial abuse minutes before he died of a stab wound was proof of two-tier policing. He's been accused by the Conservative leader, Kemi Beidnok, of whipping up anger and division. Reform's policing and crime advisor, Colin Sutton, says policing culture has to change. Put on one side the appalling act of the police officers that turned up. we need to look at why did they act in that way.

2:02How did we get from a position of those young officers joining the police to a stage where it's been instilled in some that they must deal with allegations of racism in a way that perhaps doesn't warrant it. At least 22 people are now known to have been killed in what the Russian military said was a massive strike across Ukraine. 16 of the fatalities were in the eastern city of Dnipro, while officials in Kiev say six people were killed in the capital after the collapse of an apartment building. UK Athletics has been fined£350 ,000 over the death of a Paralympian who was killed when a practice cage at a London leisure centre collapsed on his head.

2:43Abdullah Hayaye, who was 36 and a father of five, was preparing to represent the United Arab Emirates at the World Athletics Championships in London in 2017 when the cage fell on him at Newham Leisure Centre. All black men aged between 45 and 74 are to be invited to take part in a prostate cancer screening trial after the rejection of a mass NHS programme. The government's investing£20 million in the scheme, giving thousands more men access to blood tests to check their level of risk. Speaking to Times Radio, the former England footballer John Barnes said he'd had prostate cancer. It's a bit of a taboo subject because with men, to come and say, yeah, prostate cancer, we need more awareness, we need people to come forward, and in black men it's more prevalent.

3:25so men have to then bite the bullet and swallow their pride and admit if they have problems and see it so it's a good thing that that has come out And Barnes' former Liverpool manager Sir Kenny Dalgleish says he has been diagnosed with cancer The Scotland Great inadvertently posted on social media that he was undergoing treatment which prompted him to follow up with a lengthier statement There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio

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