The case is said to centre on three phone calls between Mr Hands and Mr Wormsley in the days before bids for EMI were due.

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It found a litany of problems, including a shortage of nurses so dire that staff did not have the time to wash their hands between patients and on some occasions even told those in their care to "go in their beds".

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The teenager was appointed last Wednesday to build a bridge between young people and policing in what was described as a "real hands-on role".

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Raul Fuentes Villota told a hearing last month that he was tortured while being held by Spanish police in 1991, including having pencils placed between his fingers and squeezed to inflict pain on his hands.

BBC: Raul Fuentes Villota