Yvonne Mosquito: The Witchhunt continues

Earlier this month OBV reported that West Midlands Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner (PPC) Yvonne Mosquito was being driven out of her position as the only Black female PCC in Britain. This week she was suspended as PCC following allegations of ‘gross misconduct’ for - incomprehensibly - visiting the family of a murder victim according to the Office of the PCC.

Kenichi Phillips, 18, was murdered in his car in Birmingham on 17 March. An internal investigation started after Mosquito allegedly interfered with the police investigation by visiting Phillips’ family. Jonathan Jardine, chief executive officer of the Police & Crime Commissioner stated:

Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner Yvonne Mosquito has been suspended from her post with immediate effect.”

Some sources report that Mosquito’s visit was in a pastoral role to pray with the grieving family, as she is an ordained pastor for the United Pentecostal Church of God. According to the Voice newspaper a public meeting has been organised to debate the suspension of Mosquito for next Monday, 4th April, at the African Caribbean Millennium Centre.

In response to the internal investigation and accusations of gross misconduct Yvonne Mosquito said:

I strenuously deny all of the allegations."

As Director Simon Woolley wrote in OBV’s earlier article:

Now that she’s no longer needed [to win an election] it’s felt that she is being cast aside.”

OBV stands with Mosquito and her denial of the allegations against her.

Mary Schlichte