{"id":2291052,"date":"2026-02-20T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2291052"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:47:16","slug":"police-search-at-royal-lodge-expected-to-continue-until-monday-after-andrew-released-under-investigation-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/police-search-at-royal-lodge-expected-to-continue-until-monday-after-andrew-released-under-investigation-latest\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search at Royal Lodge expected to continue until Monday after Andrew released under investigation – latest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What can we take away from Andrew’s ‘release under investigation’?<\/span>published at 11:06 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>Dominic Casciani<\/strong>
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When the police arrest someone as part of an investigation, they ultimately have to decide what they want to do with the suspect, as the detention clock runs down. <\/p>\n

Firstly, and obviously, they will charge a suspect with an offence if they have the evidence to do so. <\/p>\n

Alternatively, they will release the suspect, declaring they are taking \u201cNo Further Action\u201d (NFA), if they\u2019re no longer suspected of wrongdoing. <\/p>\n

In between charging and NFA’ing, there are two possibilities. <\/p>\n

The first is police bail – release with restrictions on liberty, pending the outcome of the investigation. <\/p>\n

But officers can only impose conditions if they are necessary to prevent the suspect from going on the run, committing an offence or interfering with the investigation in some other way. <\/p>\n

Andrew\u2019s \u201cRelease Under Investigation\u201d (RUI) is the least intrusive option – he is not under any restrictions at all. <\/p>\n

RUI is used when officers are in the foothills of an investigation and it would be disproportionate to impose restrictions on the life of a suspect, particularly when there is an awful lot of detective work still to be done. <\/p>\n

A University of Birmingham study recently found officers often considered RUI to be \u201cless faff\u201d than bail. <\/p>\n

And it means Andrew is free to go as he pleases, while police continue investigating. When that investigation will be completed is speculation. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What can we take away from Andrew’s ‘release under investigation’?published at 11:06 GMT 11:06 GMT Dominic CascianiHome and legal correspondent Image source, Reuters When the police arrest someone as part of an investigation, they ultimately have to decide what they want to do with the suspect, as the detention clock runs down. Firstly, and obviously, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police-search-at-Royal-Lodge-expected-to-continue-until-Monday.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291054,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291052\/revisions\/2291054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}