UK police refuse to disclose identity of uncharged suspect in Covid spitting death

Last year, a man spat in railway ticket officer Billy Mujinga's face in London's Victoria train station. She developed Covid and died of the disease two weeks later. British Transport Police declined to charge the white 57 year-old suspect and is now protecting him from private prosecution or civil lawsuit, claiming that to reveal his identity to Mujinga's family or their lawyers would compromise the man's rights.Read the rest



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