Met chief defends deputy over Westminster terror attack response
(World News UK)

Scotland Yard´s most senior police officer has said criticism of her deputy´s decision to stay in his car as an unarmed Pc was stabbed to death in the Westminster terror attack is `simply wrong`. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick defended Sir Craig Mackey after an inquest jury found Khalid Masood, 52, was lawfully killed when he was shot dead by a Cabinet minister´s bodyguard. Her comments echoed those made by Chief Coroner Mark Lucraft QC and the Met´s counter-terror chief Neil Basu, who both spoke out in support of Sir Craig´s actions on March 22 last year. The actions he was able to and did take were to protect the unarmed police staff colleagues who were in the car with him....