[danielf]

Originally Posted by Hugh

I think the media are stirring stuff up about the Police protection of Chuck 'n Cammi - for instance, Sky News report It was actually a mile away (see attachment).

According to the Times (paywalled)

Sir Paul said this morning: “Of course it was a hugely regrettable and shocking incident, a dreadful incident really.

“While I don’t want to go into the details of our security operations, I do have to say that, as one would expect with such movements, that route was thoroughly recced, including minutes beforehand.

“I think what you have to remember is the unpredictability of those, I was going to call them demonstrators, but these thugs, in the way in which they were moving around London.

“I do think that the officers who were protecting their Royal Highnesses showed very real restraint - some of those officers were armed.

Their priority was to get that car to the point of safety, which was the venue, and that was achieved, but it was a hugely shocking incident and there will be a full criminal investigation into it.”

So, apparently the road was clear minutes earlier, but the protesters just happened to materialize there just before the car arrived.