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A crash in which a 15- and a 16-year-old boy riding on an electric bike were killed led to rioting, the burning of cars and attacks on police in the Ely estate in Cardiff; social media had said the deaths followed a police chase, which the police denied. But video evidence seemed to show a chase. During the riot, one of the boys’ mothers posted a Facebook message: ‘Please I beg you all to stop and let my son be moved to hospital so I can see him.’ A woman hit on 10 May by a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh died. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, in a classic game of hunt-the-issue, asked his ethics adviser, Laurie Magnus, to look at the case of Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, reported to have asked a civil servant to see if she could take a speed-awareness course privately as a punishment for speeding; after being told that this was not a civil service task, she was said to have asked a special adviser to see if she could do something similar, and, when told she could not, she decided to accept penalty points.
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