Judith Moritz

I mean, I'm reminded of that moment in the wake of Heaton Park when Sir Mark Rowley stood next to the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Sir Stephen Watson.

and said at that point that current laws are inadequate to deal with the public order policing in this sphere.

Now, obviously, what happened at the Gilders Green this week is not part of public order policing.

The opinions of those two senior officers have been for a long time that they don't have the tools to deal with the issues or many of the issues which are finding at the moment so much prominence.

And actually, you know, when I've looked at the legislation, the range of different kinds of legislation they're having to deal with to tackle racial and religious hate crime, Public Order Act, the Crime and Disorder Act, the Criminal Justice Act.

the Racial and Religious Hatred Act.

You know, there's a range of it.

Now, this is one of the things that Ken MacDonald, Lord MacDonald, is currently reviewing for the government.

He's looking at whether or not there needs to be more legislation, as these senior officers are saying, or whether it needs to be simplified.

And that, by the way, is the view...

of Jonathan Hall Casey, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.

He told me for Panorama that we don't need any more laws, that in his mind this is a really simple thing.

He said to me, in fact, the evidence is in.

What you're seeing on the streets at these protests, he said, chance-like, globalise the intifada.

That, he says, is that you can draw a direct line between that, between that sort of hate speech, those placards, those chants, and what we're now seeing in terms of extreme acts of violence.

He said it's a very simple matter.

The police need to be tougher on this.

I mean, frankly, it's the search for answers, isn't it?

Something horrific happens.

And in the aftermath, people are clamoring for an explanation.