But when news of the IPCC’s exclusion reached senior officers at New ScotlandYard, they were alarmed ...Ian Blair seemed to be one of the only people at Scotland Yard ignorant of the fact that the force had shot an innocent man.
He was jailed for 18 years over the false allegations in 2019 ... But in a public statement issued just months earlier, ScotlandYard said detectives ‘had not found evidence to prove they were knowingly misled by a complainant.’ ... .