Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“The longer the police ‘investigation’ of the Storey funeral drags on the more suspicious I am that the PSNI’s position is seriously compromised.
“If there is any truth in the claim of the Sinn Fein leader that the funeral was “meticulously planned” with the PSNI, then, if such collaboration contained any police assent to large numbers attending, it will create an invidious situation capable of impacting on prosecutions.
“Is this why we are witnessing intolerable feet-dragging?
“The Chief Constable needs to come clean on why a straightforward pursuit of evident breaches of the Covid-19 regulations is stalling, with the deputy First Minister not even interviewed.
“The politics at play in policing is, as fear, compromising the pursuit of justice.”