In the first decades of the 20th century, police officers across the country had an astonishingly effective method of getting suspects they believed guilty of certain crimes to confess.

His father was a police officer and his mother worked in a tearoom.

The man got off the train as police officers on patrol in the station rushed to the fire.

Hochman’s brief also said that the prosecutors and police officers who initially put the pair in jail had done nothing wrong.

Five serving police officers have been sacked and three former colleagues told they would have been dismissed over a WhatsApp group featuring "routine misogyny" and "casual racism".