Mother of Caroline Flack does not accept Met Police apology

The parent of Caroline Flack has said she rejects an apology fixed by the Metropolitan Police astir however her daughter's lawsuit was handled.

The TV prima was facing prosecution for assaulting her fellow erstwhile she killed herself successful February 2020.

The Met past period apologised to her mum, Christine Flack, for not signaling the crushed wherefore she had been charged.

Christine told the BBC she rejects that apology, portion the unit said her apprehension had been handled appropriately.

It is 3 years since The X Factor and Love Island big took her ain life. She had been owed to look successful tribunal implicit the alleged battle of her then-boyfriend, Lewis Burton, successful the weeks earlier her death, successful 2020.

Following her arrest, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) initially decided Caroline lone person a caution - a determination that was appealed by a elder Met serviceman and resulted successful her alternatively facing a complaint of battle by beating.

A coroner aboriginal ruled the presenter killed herself due to the fact that she knew she was facing prosecution and feared the publicity a proceedings would attract.

Following her death, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) carried retired a reappraisal of the Met's determination to complaint her. The reappraisal "did not place immoderate misconduct" by the Met.

However, the IOPC did inquire the Met to apologise to Caroline's household astir not signaling its crushed to entreaty the archetypal CPS decision. Last month, the unit apologised for not officially signaling wherefore the presenter had been charged.

Christine has antecedently said her girl had been treated otherwise due to the fact that of her fame.

Speaking to BBC Newsnight's Victoria Derbyshire, she said she does not judge that apology, adding: "It conscionable seems wrong. They haven't said wherefore determination were nary notes taken, wherefore thing was recorded. I don't cognize whether they're covering something."

When asked if she thought her girl would inactive beryllium live if the caution had remained and Caroline had not been charged, Christine told Newsnight: "I do, I truly do."

"Once each the pictures came retired successful the newspapers and things were written astir her connected societal media - they conscionable picked up the bad," she said. "There was a batch of good, but Caroline wasn't speechmaking the bully - she was lone speechmaking the bad."

She added: "She mislaid her occupation consecutive away, without adjacent being recovered blameworthy oregon going to court. She had different bid axed."

Christine says she volition not halt campaigning for a much broad apology from the Met for the mode it dealt with her girl successful the hours earlier she died.

Following her arrest, Caroline was taken by ambulance to infirmary due to the fact that she had self-harmed. She was aboriginal locked successful a compartment for 24 hours, which her parent believes was unnecessary.

The Met told the BBC the apprehension had been handled appropriately. A spokesperson said: "Our thoughts and sympathies stay with Ms Flack's household for their nonaccomplishment and we are atrocious for the interaction this has had connected them.

"When a idiosyncratic is arrested they tin beryllium held successful custody for a play of up to 24 hours to let officers clip to stitchery grounds and analyse the alleged offence.

"A reappraisal by the Independent Office for Police Conduct did not place immoderate misconduct successful narration to the handling of Ms Flack's arrest, however, it concluded that an serviceman progressive successful the probe should person reflective practice."

Christine told Newsnight her biggest regret is not speaking retired publically successful the hours aft her daughter's apprehension to close what she describes arsenic "lies'" printed by the press.

"Things that went into the property that she deed idiosyncratic with a lamp oregon a instrumentality - that was conscionable wholly untrue," she says. "And cipher ever came retired and said, 'No, that didn't happen.'"

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