Anyone else feeling quite sick about the latest news about a policeman

[womanofdulwich]

I try to be positive, I really do, but something is very very wrong. All the way.😱

[HeadNun]

I couldn't believe it today when I got a BBC breaking news alert announcing that he'd been sacked... it felt like a joke.

[ianr]

HN, can you clarify please. I can understand news media always emphasising items that have just 'broken': they seem to think it's their prime duty to be really really up-to-date and first with the news. So I'd expect it to appear on the tickertape thing at the bottom of a TV ppicture (as a pretty routine and expected piece of news, but very topical and with much public interest). But are you saying you got something labelled as an alert, maybe as a text on your phone?

[HeadNun]

HN, can you clarify please. I can understand news media always emphasising items that have just 'broken': they seem to think it's their prime duty to be really really up-to-date and first with the news. So I'd expect it to appear on the tickertape thing at the bottom of a TV ppicture (as a pretty routine and expected piece of news, but very topical and with much public interest). But are you saying you got something labelled as an alert, maybe as a text on your phone?

 

Yes that's what happened - a BBC breaking news alert on my phone.

Turns out there was a Met misconduct hearing after he was charged and confessed, in which they decided to sack him. It was all over the news that day. Seemed strange to to report it as breaking news when there surely could not have been any other conceivable outcome.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-64302608