LFI chair Jon Pearce MP has today written to Sarah Crew, Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police, regarding a Bristol councillor’s sharing of a video from Hamas on social media in October 2023.
In February 2025, Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) decision notice 100/24, set out that Abdul Malik – since elected as a Green councillor in Bristol in May 2024 – had admitted to sharing the video on his Facebook page just days after the 7 October attacks by Hamas, which killed around 1,200 people and saw 250 taken hostage, of whom 59 remain in Gaza.
Avon and Somerset Police have not yet made any public comment on the admission, nor has a direct public apology been evident from Mr Malik nor the Green Party.
Given Hamas’s proscription as a terrorist organisation in the UK, Jon asked the Chief Constable for confirmation that Avon and Somerset Police were investigating the alleged offences, when those investigations were initiated, and when they might be expected to conclude.
See below for the full letter.
