Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright – No further action taken

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Latest news in Yorkshire: November 05, 2018 12:02:42 PM

Former South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright will
face no further action after a 14-month investigation found there was
“insufficient evidence” to back up allegations he had committed perjury
when discussing the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal with
MPs.

A 26-page report published by the Independent Office for Police Conduct
on Friday revealed Mr Wright refused to answer questions while being
interviewed about the allegations under criminal caution in April this
year after reading a prepared statement in which he denied lying under
oath to MPs.

“He then exercised his right not to answer any further questions during
his interview,” the IOPC report said. The IOPC said it would not making
a referral to the Director of Public Prosecutions after the watchdog
investigated complaints from two people that Mr Wright had committed
perjury when giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on
September 9, 2014.

The hearing took place when he was still police and crime commissioner
but was facing widespread calls to resign in the wake of the publication
of a damning inquiry which had revealed at least 1,400 children in
Rotherham had been sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013.