Police hits at BBC after apology for ‘insensitive’ search

The chief constable of South Yorkshire Police has apologised to Cliff Richard if the force was "insensitive" about the search of the singer’s home.

David Crompton told the Home Affairs Select Committee his inquiry had been “fatally compromised” by a claimed leak of information from Scotland Yard to the BBC, leading his force to make a deal with the broadcaster.

A crew was outside the gated Berkshire development where Richard has a penthouse apartment before police on the day of the search last month.