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Who polices the police?

  • Ken Wright
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

Transcript

So there was very much a case

It did make it, I suppose.

Didn't make it complicated because you'd

Was it was against the law.

I should add at that time.

It wasn't against the law in civvyland.

You know that the law had changed.

the military was the last to change.

With the possible exception

Everything else had changed.

but in a way, I think it also made it

more easy to be swept under the carpet,

I don't think, as a unit, the RAF police

wanted to admit that

they had lawbreakers amongst them,

So better

which I understand,

because at the moment there is a, a

I was invited to the House of Commons

I gave evidence

report.

And then the next move of

not so much the compensation,

but how do we give an apology to those

You need proof

to leave because of being gay.

Of course I wasn't.

I was quietly asked to leave

So they've they've kind of done

untie all that,

I don't think

but it's a choice of words.

and that's how they did it

They were very careful

What is more difficult to

accept is knowing

that some of my know

went through a very hard,

at the hands of people

that I find difficult to reconcile.

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