£6m spent to slur Stalker inquiry
The British Commons home affairs committee was told on Tuesday
that the Greater Manchester police force spent £6 million
defending a charge of malicious prosecution by businessman Kevin
Taylor.
Taylor claimed he had been charged with fraud in an attempt to
discredit his friend John Stalker, the Deputy Chief Constable of
Greater Manchester, who was in the process of investigating the
RUC's `shoot to kill' policy. The Stalker inquiry collapsed after
Stalker was suspended in 1986 accused of ``associating with known
criminals''. The police dropped all charges and agreed to an out
of court settlement with Taylor believed to be over £1 million in
1995 after claims that police fabricated evidence.
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