When Benza later put together the incident report, he asked several sergeants whether he should mention the real reason he started following Brock and was told to omit it, according to his plea agreement.

The 1954 Waqf Act recognised such properties under the category of “waqf by user”, but the proposed law omits the provision, leaving the fate of a significant number of these properties uncertain.

Ultimately, that led to him omitting the story from the documentary.

And, the investigation found, the department has omitted pertinent facts about the deaths in communications to the families of the dead and to the public.

On Wednesday, the OBR describes a similar increase in spending for the year - £23bn - which they split into the omitted £9.5bn and the cost of new policies announced since the March Budget.