Detective superintendent speaks about media interestpublished at 12:04 GMT<\/p>\n
12:04 GMT<\/p>\n
Sanders has told the inquiry how on 15 June, two days after the attacks, his focus was “purely and squarely [on] dealing with a triple homicide”, and not “the other noise, if I can call it that”, going on to refer to the media reporting around the attacks. <\/p>\n
He added after a media release had been shared, he was trying to “provide a structure” to how information could be received and shared. <\/p>\n
In his decision log, shown to the inquiry, Sanders had noted a coordinated media release with the families affected would be required, adding it could have a “significant impact on the reputation of the constabulary”.<\/p>\n
“It was obvious by this time that the media interest in the case was enormous. It made not just national news but international news,” he said.<\/p>\n
Rachel Langdale KC said: “Did you feel
\nthe need to communicate to the media what you were doing, rather than just
\ngetting on with what you were doing?”<\/p>\n
Sanders responded: “In terms of
\nthe media strategy if I’m being perfectly honest, I left that with gold [the senior officer with overall strategic command]. <\/p>\n
“My
\nfocus was purely and squarely in trying to secure preserve evidence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detective superintendent speaks about media interestpublished at 12:04 GMT 12:04 GMT Sanders has told the inquiry how on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}