# UK police should not have let US force take over airbase trial, MoD documents show

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-10-31T13:30:43+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/31/uk-police-should-not-have-let-us-force-take-over-airbase-trial-mod-documents-show
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/uk-police-should-not-have-let-us-force-take-over-airbase-trial-mod-doc-f404ab/

According to documents obtained by the Guardian, officials accused Cambridgeshire force of breaching US-UK deal by handing over case of woman strangled by US pilot Ministry of Defence officials have privately accused a UK police force of wrongly handing over the investigation of an American fighter pilot who strangled a British woman to the US military, according to documents obtained by the Guard

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