Cooke stays put

The Metropolitan police has "no plans" to move child killer Sidney Cooke from his current location. Carlton TV's London Today programme had claimed that a cell block at Cheshunt police station in Hertfordshire, which is just within the Met's area, was being refurbished, possibly to hold Cooke.

However, Met sources said that there were no plans to move him from the police station where he is currently being kept until "suitable long- term accommodation" could be found. It is thought that Cooke, 70, who was released from prison custody on Monday after serving nine years of a 16-year term for the manslaughter of teenager Jason Swift, is being held at Leman Street police station in east London.