Neighbours of Boris Johnson’s girlfriend were right to call in police after hearing a noisy row, the Met Police Commissioner said today.
Cressida Dick said: “I think it is important that people call the police when they are worried about somebody, of course. I want people to tell us if they are worried about somebody.”
Tom Penn and his partner Eve Leigh recorded the disturbance at Carrie Symonds’s flat in Camberwell in the early hours on Friday.
Mr Penn and Ms Leigh claimed that they feared for Ms Symonds’s safety when they used Mr Penn’s phone to make the recording, which they later handed to a newspaper.
Police who visited the flat left soon afterwards, saying there was no cause for police action. It emerged later that the couple are ardent Remain supporters and therefore op
Boris Johnson, pictured leaving the Conservative Councillors' Association Group Leaders' Day on Friday (PA)posed to Mr Johnson’s stance on Brexit.
Asked if they were right to make the recording, Ms Dick said: “It can be helpful for us, if there is evidence of a crime that we are then going to be investigating, if somebody has made some sort of recording.”
Ms Dick also said she had personally looked at drug-taking confessions made by the contenders for the Conservative Party leadership — but there was not enough evidence to bring charges.
She told LBC such action would not be in the public interest and the events took place too long ago for there to be sufficient evidence.
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