UK police ‘appealed against decision to caution Caroline Flack over assault’

Giving evidence at her inquest in Poplar, east London, Detective Inspector Lauren Bateman said Caroline Flack (pictured) had not made it clear in her police interview later what she was admitting to.

The UK's Metropolitan Police appealed the country's Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) decision to hand British television star Caroline Flack a caution for assaulting her boyfriend because a senior officer believed the Love Island host had not clearly admitted responsibility, her inquest heard.

Police attended Flack’s home in December when her boyfriend Lewis Burton, said to be bleeding profusely from a cut to his head, phoned emergency services saying Flack was trying to kill him.