Campaigners criticise UK plans to reveal suspects’ ethnicity and migration status

Yvette Cooper wants guidance to change after row over claims police covered up' status of two men on charges relating to an alleged rape

Anti-racism campaigners have criticised proposals to allow police to reveal the ethnicity and migration status of suspects, after a row triggered by claims police covered up" the backgrounds of two men charged in connection to the alleged rape of a child.

The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, this week told the BBC she hoped the Law Commission would accelerate" a review of contempt of court and that guidance needs to change" about information released when a trial is pending.