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Complaint about Post's coverage was 'mistake'
Nottingham Post
|March 21, 2026
POLICE TRIED TO GAG PRESS WITH 'NON-DISCLOSURE' AGREEMENT
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Police's outgoing Chief Constable has admitted it was a "mistake" to complain to a regulator about the Post's and Nottinghamshire Live's coverage of the Nottingham attacks.
Kate Meynell, who is retiring after taking part in the statutory public inquiry into Valdo Calocane’s horrific June 2023 killings, said she “shouldn't have done it” when asked about the police’s complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation in May 2024.
Journalists from several outlets were invited to a briefing with Nottinghamshire Police in February 2024 and before attending, media were asked to confirm in writing that the briefing would be “non-disclosable”.
The briefing, which Ms Meynell took part in, contained previously unknown details about the extent of Calocane’s interaction with Nottinghamshire Police in the years before the June 2023 killings.
Given the strong public interest in such details, the Post and its website reported them and also reported the fact that we had been made to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
This story is from the March 21, 2026 edition of Nottingham Post.
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