Portrait of the week | 14 April 2012

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The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Britain would not violate human rights by extraditing to the United States five terrorist suspects: Abu Hamza, Babar Ahmad, Adel Abdul Bary, Talha Ahsan and Khaled al-Fawwaz; the case of Haroon Aswat, who suffers from schizophrenia, was adjourned. A car bomb was found at Newry, Co. Down. The Independent Police Complaints Commission investigated ten incidents of alleged racism involving 18 officers. Football clubs should pay for policing further away from stadiums, Assistant Chief Constable Andy Holt said on behalf of the Association of Chief Police Officers. A fire in a goods yard in Canning Town cut off electricity for 88,000.

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Candidates for the post of Mayor of London published details of their taxes: Boris Johnson (Conservative) paid £213,749 tax on an income of £473,280; Ken Livingstone (Labour) paid £34,661 tax on an income of £94,568; Brian Paddick (Liberal Democrat) paid £20,504 tax on an income of £76,804; Jenny Jones (Green) paid £15,577 tax on an income of £63,028. Chancellor George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, then told the Daily Telegraph that he would be ‘very happy’ to consider publishing the personal tax returns of senior cabinet ministers. Downing Street accused some rich people of donating to charities which do not ‘do a great deal of charitable work’. The NUT and NASUWT celebrated Easter in their traditional manner by threatening to go on strike. The government considered proposals by Emirates airline to fly to and from Heathrow from 4 a.m. round the clock to 1 a.m., narrowing the current night closure of 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, flew off to Japan, and included Burma among the destinations of an east Asian tour.

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Sky News said that it had hacked emails from John Darwin, the man who faked his own death in a canoe, before passing information to the police.