Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of the decision by Sussex Police not to review the case of Vishal Mehrotra.

Decisions concerning individual investigations are the responsibility of the respective police force’s chief officers to make.

As police forces are independent of government, it would not be appropriate to comment on such decisions.

Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne said she was "deeply moved and reminded again of the awful tragedy that the Mehrotra family has endured for so many years" after listening to the podcast.