Justice secretary suggests Jenrick risked collapse of murder trial with tweet

Published on September 3, 2025 at 01:54 PM
Justice secretary suggests Jenrick risked collapse of murder trial with tweet

Judge said shadow justice secretary’s comments during trial of Elias Morgan were ‘ill thought through’

The justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has suggested that her Tory counterpart, Robert Jenrick, was guilty of “risking the collapse of trial”, after he was criticised in court for tweeting about a criminal case.

Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, posted on social media about a murder trial a week after it had begun, making comments that the judge said were “ill thought through”.

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