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After a driver ploughed into crowds during the Liverpool FC victory parade on Monday evening, Merseyside Police said within two hours they had arrested a “53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area”.

It was striking how quickly police shared the man’s nationality and ethnicity.

The decision shows lessons have already been learned from the Southport attacks last summer, when online speculation and disinformation filled a void after the same force released little detail about the 17-year-old they had in custody.

Usually when a suspect is arrested, police forces in England and Wales just give out the age of the person and where they were arrested.

But at 19:53 BST, the force emailed out a press release including the suspect’s age, nationality and ethnicity.

It was a clear attempt to damp down inaccurate speculation on social media that the Ford Galaxy driving into Liverpool fans was part of an Islamist terrorist attack, or was in any way linked to migrants.