Lawyers have called for closer monitoring of crown prosecutors’ media accounts after one of them was rebuked for sharing Britain First posts on Facebook.
Kim Kendall, a senior lawyer at the Yorkshire and Humberside CPS, based in the organisation’s Hull office, shared a petition from the far-right group Britain First calling for the statue of Nelson Mandela to be torn down. It accuses Mandela of being “a communist and terrorist mass murderer” who should be “consigned to the dustbin of history”.
Other posts which appeared on her timeline and were referred for investigation included one originally posted by another Facebook user about the murder of the soldier Lee Rigby, saying: “I don’t remember the UK rioting after 2 black immigrants hacked to death a white British soldier in broad daylight … Just saying!”
Kendall shared the messages at the height of the Black Lives Matter campaign.
Lawyers who raised concerns about the case when the posts emerged welcomed the decision by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to issue a formal rebuke to her this week after investigating the matter.
Attiq Malik, secretary of the Society of Asian Lawyers, said he and colleagues were calling for more monitoring of the social media accounts of lawyers such as Kendall.
“The fact that the SRA has upheld this complaint sends a strong message which is needed to instil public confidence in the profession.”
Ash Mahmood of Drummond Solicitors, one of the lawyers who complained about Kendall’s social...
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