Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged

Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged

Omnishambles just keeps on rolling and you're paying for it


Sussex Police's probe of the infamous London Gatwick airport drone fiasco of Christmas 2018 has doubled in cost to nearly £900,000 – and the bungling force still hasn't arrested the person or persons responsible.


So far police in Sussex, where the "London" airport is situated, have splurged an eye-watering £886,210 on trying to track down whoever shut down the UK's second busiest airport in December.


Reports dating back to March showed the force had spent £419,000 by that date, meaning the cost of the investigation has doubled over the past five months. At the time, local MP Henry Smith described the force's spending as "shocking".


The figure was revealed in a Freedom of Information response to ..

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