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Reports of People killed - Unlawful Arrest    - Unlawfully killed 

What the police and the Criminal Prosecution Service ( CPS) ... 'do not want the public to realize' is......

When a policeman --- Kills or Injures' --- anyone and that person is 'NOT GUILTY' of any offence.
Then this is an 'Unlawful arrest.' 

Therefore the police officer responsible has committed a criminal offence.

The reports below are only a few of the innocent people killed by English police thugs 

Fancy phrases in the Butler inquiry such as 'amid disquiet' 'questionable procedure' 'I am not alone in feeling uneasy' about it' over the initial decision not to prosecute anyone for the deaths in custody. Will 'NOT' stop innocent people being killed

Name and date of being killed 

Other details

Jean Charles de Menezes 27yo - 22 July 2005 
Shot in the head 7 times by police - Killed instantly

Murdered by English police

The definition of murder:
Murder must be intentional and pre-meditated.
Kill intentionally and with premeditation

The 2nd .. 'innocent man' .. shot and killed as a terrorist by English police.
It has been reported that the Special Branch or a Special branch  officers altered the notes to falsify the record in a log as to what happened 

One more innocent man .... NO THREAT TO THE POLICE in any way is shot and killed just going to work.

MR J C de Menezes Is the last innocent man shot and killed by English police who know they will never be charged and found guilty because the police the DPP and the CPS  will conspire for years to delay any attempt to charge the officers.

July 2006 The CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) said (as they always do ) there was 'Insufficient evidence to charge individual officers.' (Which is what the CPS always say for years so the police involved can retire on full pension claiming ill health, as they have in so many cases when police kill innocent people.) 

You are a terrorist - So you can surrender

It's ODD that when Scotland Yard's CO19 firearms police unit do find terrorist bombers  

They don't shoot them they let them surrender  (Which is more intelligent so that you can find out more about them and who they know)

Radios do not work underground 

A POLICE STATEMENT SAID THE OFFICERS IN CHARGE COULDN'T COMMUNICATE WITH OFFICERS --- their radios did not work on THE LONDON UNDERGROUND Which could have saved Jean Charles de Menezes life

John Stevens said when he was Met Commissioner, he had done all he could to put pressure on the Home Office to provide specialist radios. Today the situation is still no different. Police officers do have the new state-of-the-art "Airwave" radios but they still don't work deep underground.

IN 'HONG KONG' Ordinary people USE THEIR MOBILES ....  'DEEP' UNDERGROUND .... ON THE MTR (Mass Transit Railway)  

So It's very odd that police say their radios DO NOT WORK  on the London underground. When ordinary people in Hong Kong can use an ordinary mobile on their underground railway system, even when it goes under the China sea..

We should get the Hong Kong MTR railways to be in charge of communications. Are there any bets that people in other countries can also use their ordinary mobiles in underground railway systems.

Ignore the advice from the Israel Police - We know better 

Chief Inspector Martin Rush, was asked if his officers actually have to see a suicide jacket, or what they think may be a suicide jacket, before they open fire. "NO", he replied.

 

(Israel police have to see that a suspect has a bomb vest. English police ignored this advice from the Israel police with the typical English police attitude We know better)

 

Promotion for one of the commanding officers involved in killing Jean Charles de Menezes

Report 19 February 2007
Commander Cressida Dick is promoted to:
Deputy Assistant Commissioner 

She was the "Gold commander" responsible for "tactical operation" that ultimately led to the Brazilian's death on 22 July 2005
MPA Chair Len Duvall said.
"Candidates were chosen on the basis of their application and ability. 

She told an Inquest jury "Given what I now know and what I was told at the time, I wouldn't change those decisions," she told the jury.
(No wonder police shot innocent people as terrorist)

Which shows how intelligent the Scotland Yard's CO19 firearms police unit really is

22 July 2005 Commander Cressida Dick arrived at Scotland Yard in the early hours of the morning to become the "gold commander" responsible for "tactical delivery" the same day Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed

The defence of "obeying orders" was discredited at 'Nuremburg war trails'

Patricia da Silva Armani, Mr Menezes' cousin, said:

To promote her is disgraceful." 

"The idea that police officers who were responsible for Jean's killing are being promoted makes me feel sick.
"Not only did they take away Jean's life that day but they also took away part of mine, yet their lives continue as normal. 
"By promoting officers before the legal process is complete they are sending out a message that these police officers are above the law and have already been exonerated."

Police lies and the start of the cover up

When are people going to realize that Mr C de Menezes did not act suspiciously, he did not vault the ticket barriers, was not challenged, did not run away, was not wearing bulky clothing, etc.
POLICE LIED ABOUT ALL these events. This was the start of the police cover up.
Mr C de Menezes was sitting down in a train when he was shot. 

Click here for the full report 

Shot 7 times in the head - Instantly killed

CPS 'As always' refuse to charge the police officers responsible. 

The former Met Police Commissioner sent police teams to Israel and other countries to get advice on suicide bombers

Then ignore all the advice from people like Major General Mickey Levy, the police commander in Jerusalem between 2000 and 2004, who dealt with 42 suicide bombers.

English police who think they know better.
Then kill one more innocent man as a terrorist.

Scotland Yard's CO19 firearms police unit are very stupid. These are suppose to be the top specialist highly-trained firearms intelligence officers against terrorists. They have never heard of a "dead man" switch? A button that has to be kept pressed, or a mercury switch that triggers if someone falls to the ground, what is the point of "shoot to kill". These methods are very basic but enough to kill everyone around a bomber. I will not explain many more methods to trigger circuits I don't want to give anyone ideas.

CO19 is deluding the public with their pathetic so called intelligence.

False news reports about what happened 

  • Once again police release/encourage untrue information about a man they kill.
  • The police do not deny or rectify false reports about  Jean Charles De Menezes.
  • Vaulting over the ticket barrier 
  • having very bulky clothes 
  • running away when challenged.
  • All the reports were untrue.
  • It was the police that vaulted over the ticket barriers
  • He was never challenge .. Mr De Menezes was sitting down on the train just waiting for it to move.
  • The BBC news Have your say .....  'Is shoot-to-kill justified' ....  shows people believed the untrue news reports.

The IPCC is leading the investigation into the 'State execution' by undercover cops of the young Brazilian worker, Jean Charles de Menezes, in July 2005. After it emerged that police had systematically falsified the events leading up to de Menezes killing. 

CPS in their well known role of protect the police - refused to charge the police officers.  

Any 'Police Officer or a person of an Authority in the DPP or CPS (Crown Prosecution Service)' that do not prosecute or submit evidence against a police officer  when there is evidence and just cause to do so, must be charged with
PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE

The lies spread by the police are still believed many weeks later on the internet. So the police have succeeded in convincing some people they acted lawfully. This is why police spread these stories 

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Editor: This text edited from the following publication.  United Nations publication that covers the war in the Former Yugoslavia. Therefore it will be applicable to any innocent person in any country that is 'Unlawfully killed' or killed because of violations of international law.

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Judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
in the case of

Delalic et al. (I.T-96-21) "Celebici" 16 November 1998

Part III C

Applicable law

F. Individual Criminal Responsibility Under Article 7(1)

319. The principles of individual criminal responsibility enshrined in Article 7, paragraph 1, of the Statute reflect the basic understanding that individual criminal responsibility for the offences under the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal is not limited to persons who directly commit the crimes in question. Instead, as stated in the Report of the Secretary-General: "all persons who participate in the planning, preparation or execution of serious violations of international humanitarian law in the former Yugoslavia contribute to the commission of the violation and are, therefore, individually responsible"

320 Article 7(1) accordingly provides as follows:

A person who planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of a crime referred to in articles 2 to 5 of the present Statute, shall be individually responsible for the crime.

323. The Prosecution accordingly concludes that in order to incur criminal responsibility for unlawful killing, it is not necessary for the accused to have physically caused the death of the victim, or, in other words, to have "delivered the fatal blow". It is submitted that for criminal liability to attach, the accused’s act(s) of participation need not have been committed in the same place or at the same time as the acts that caused the victim’s death, nor that he be present when those same acts are perpetrated. Instead, the Prosecution argues, it must be shown that the accused through his act(s) either aided and abetted in the commission of the unlawful act, or that he participated in a common enterprise or transaction which resulted in the death of the victim

333. This criminal liability may arise either out of the positive acts of the superior (sometimes referred to as "direct" command responsibility) or from his culpable omissions ("indirect" command responsibility or command responsibility strictu sensu). Thus, a superior may be held criminally responsible not only for ordering, instigating or planning criminal acts carried out by his subordinates, but also for failing to take measures to prevent or repress the unlawful conduct of his subordinates. As noted in the Report of the Secretary-General on the establishment of the International Tribunal:

A person in a position of superior authority should, therefore, be held individually responsible for giving the unlawful order to commit a crime under the present statute. But he should also be held responsible for failure to prevent a crime or to deter the unlawful behaviour of his subordinates. This imputed responsibility or criminal negligence is engaged if the person in superior authority knew, or had reason to know, that his subordinates were about to commit or had committed crimes and yet failed to take the necessary and reasonable steps to prevent or repress the commission of such crimes or to punish those who had committed them

356. It is apparent from the text of this provision that no express limitation is made restricting the scope of this type of responsibility to military commanders or situations arising under a military command. In contrast, the use of the generic term "superior" in this provision, together with its juxtaposition to the affirmation of the individual criminal responsibility of "Head[s] of State or Government" or "responsible Government official[s]" in Article 7(2), clearly indicates that its applicability extends beyond the responsibility of military commanders to also encompass political leaders and other civilian superiors in positions of authority.

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Corporate killing law to include police and prisons as Government admits defeat - July 19 2007

Prisons and police authorities will be liable for prosecution over deaths of people held in custody after a final defeat of the Government over the scope of new corporate manslaughter laws.

The new law on corporate killing is now set to receive Royal Assent within days after the Lords voted by 186 to 157 to include deaths in custody.

David Bergman, Director of the Centre for Corporate Accountability said: “We are thrilled that finally the Government has agreed with the Lords and human rights organizations as well as ourselves, that the new Bill should apply to deaths in custody

THIS IS WHY CORONERS AND JUDGES WILL .... ORDER THE JURY THAT THEY CANNOT GIVE AN ... 'UNLAWFULLY KILLED' VERDICT


A Police officers 'LAME EXCUSE' when they kill an 'Innocent Unarmed person'

'My Life was in danger'

Just saying ... 'My LIFE WAS IN DANGER' ... IS NOT EVIDENCE -- But they don't have to prove it

This is the LAW OF ENGLAND That so many men women and children have died for in 2 world wars

Harry Stanley - Father of 3 children 
Shot by police - Killed instantly 22 Oct 1999
Innocent man just walking home

Murdered by English police

The definition of murder:
Murder must be intentional and pre-meditated.
Kill intentionally and with premeditation

Biased 'Open verdict' from the Coroner Dr Stephen Chan - Changed to 'Unlawfully killed' -  

Then the police and a judge sitting alone behind closed doors reverse the 'Unlawfully killed' verdict back to 'Open Verdict'

The IPCC said the accounts of the two officers "lacked credibility".
One more innocent man .... NO THREAT TO THE POLICE in any way is shot and killed just walking home.

Shot in the side of the head and killed from only 15 feet away  by Inspector Neil Sharman Killed instantly and shot in the hand by Pc Kevin Fagan - .

A man from a pub phones the police that a man has a sawn-off shotgun. 

  1. The police who don't know anything about this man. 
  2. If he is drunk or not  .... or if what he said is reliable
  3. Police still go and shoot Harry Stanley on the flimsiest of evidence. 
  4. Some reports say the call was for a joke.
  5. This is seen by the police as justifiable
  6. To shoot Mr Stanley who was just walking home
  7. This casts serious doubts on the police intellect.

29 October 2004 Deborah Glass IPCC

Slanderous attack on the character of Mr H Stanley the victim 

 

Deborah Glass Lied in her report about Mr H Stanley drinking alcohol 
Mr H Stanley had been drinking LEMONADE see the report Tuesday, 29th April 2002 from King's College London, Royal Courts of Justice.

Deborah Glass from the PCA to the IPCC different name but the same people protect the police and 'BLACKEN' the victims character
In the City of London, Hertfordshire, Thames Valley, Surrey and the Metropolitan (North East) police forces, as well as London Borough Parks police in North East London.  

Deborah Glass IPCC Independent Police Complaints Commission

 

Defended 'NOT' taking disciplinary action against the police officers who shot and killed Harry Stanley as he was just walking home. 

Have you investigated the ... 'Police officers character' ... in the same way. They are the assailants not Mr Stanley he was the victim

There is no mention of the police shooting an
innocent man in your report.

 

29 October 2004 On the IPCC web site report Deborah Glass, IPCC Commissioner said:
“There is a need for further research into whether there are more effective methods for firearms officers in dealing with vulnerable people such as those impaired by alcohol, as Mr Stanley was.

(People are only vulnerable from the police CO19 shoot a suspect terrorist in the head policy}

Such people are often less likely to react rationally and more likely to react negatively to certain sorts of approaches and challenges. Although this is an extremely rare occurrence, such people are more likely to be shot.”  Turning around when you hear someone shout ... is not acting rationally. [NO EVIDENCE HE ACTED NEGATIVELY]

(Editor) I think YOU HAVE BEEN DRINKING to make such a ridiculous slanderous statement to try to justify why police shot and killed
Mr H Stanley's by implying it was all his fault and he should not think he can just walk home without getting shot.)

  • You close your eyes and do not mention in your report 
  • 'THE MAN WHO PHONED THE POLICE HAD BEEN DRINKING'
  •   
  • So from what you say about Harry Stanley 
  •  
  • This man who phoned the police was impaired by alcohol, and this man was less likely to react rationally
  •  
  • Again this shows serious doubts on the police intelligence

Is this the first time these police officers have been called to a 'So called terrorist threat'
Such people are often less likely to react rationally 

Harry Stanley cannot have a quiet drink OF LEMONADE without people like you  making up unsubstantiated slanderous statements.
Click here to read the IPCC report from Deborah Glass

  • But when we know her last appointment was with the Police Complaints Authority, from 2001 to 2004.

  • It is not surprising her investigation into the misconduct of police officers have the same conclusion.

  • Blacken the 'Character' of the 'Victim'

  • Then giving the well known PCA and CPS statement.

  • There is no evidence to charge any police officer 

Ignoring all the evidence against them

The PCA and CPS have been condemned by many organizations and some judges including Amnesty International.
The Strasbourg-based European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, said there are "serious questions" about the independence and impartiality of the 
PCA Police Complaints Authority  and the procedures used to process complaints about police misconduct. 

IPCC Commissioner Deborah Glass 

Dismissed claims that the decision not to discipline the officers gave the police licence to act with impunity.

 

Then to show how wrong her loyalty to the PCA was

  • The police shoot Jean Charles De Menezes 27yo - 22 July 2005
    Shot in the head 7 times by police - Killed instantly

  • Like Harry Stanley also shot as a terrorist

  • The 2nd  innocent man shot and killed as a terrorist by English police.

  • It has been reported that the Special Branch or a Special branch  officers altered the notes to falsify the record in a log as to what happened

  • When Jean Charles De Menezes was shot and killed

  • Is this the first time these officers have been called to a 'So called terrorist threat' 

  • Such people are often less likely to react rationally 

TWO OTHER BIASED RULING TO STOP POLICE BEING CHARGED

 

21st June 2002, The Coroner for Inner North London, Dr Stephen Chan, at the Inquest for the shooting and killing Mr H Stanley

  • Refused to allow the 'Inquest jury'

  • To consider a verdict of 'unlawful killing'

  • Harry Stanley's family applauded the jury's decision to instead return a unanimous 'open' verdict rather the only alternative left to them. 

  • This biased ruling by the coroner Dr Stephen Chan, was later quashed

Roger Sylvester also Unlawfully killed by police This inquest was further delayed by the sudden retirement of the coroner Dr Stephen Chan.

Click here for the full report

Shot in the head - Instantly killed

Independent Police Complaints Commission

Deborah Glass of the IPCC

You should inquire as to the suitability of these officers grades and what mistakes they made in training.
Before you attack the character of the victim Mr Harry Stanley

The intelligence of the two police officers is very questionable

Assault charges
The families have a right to know, For all deaths in custody

Have any of the police officers been accused of violence or assault or causing a death before or has their character been questioned.

If so how many times, whether substantiated or not. Because we know how the PCA cover up violence from the police in the past.

Has he any problems at home or work. Does he have any extremist or moderate views 

How many times has he been on a fire arms alert engagement

This is the unconvincing 'Quote' every officer gives
Read from the police manual 

A judge will except this because this is the 'Loop Hole' the law has so police cannot be found guilty of shooting ..... or in any way ..... killing innocent people

Secret Report

20 April 2000  Earlier this year a 'Public interest immunity certificate' was placed on the Surrey force's report to the PCA, meaning it will remain secret.

Deborah Coles, coordinator of pressure group Inquest, said: "This decision follows a pattern of cases where police officers whose conduct has led to death and shows that the rule of law does 'Not' apply to police officers.

The Justice for Harry Stanley campaign said, The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Attorney General have
illustrated very clearly that the police not only have the right to shoot to kill, but they will be afforded total immunity from prosecution.

The current system - which allows officers to confer before writing up fatal incidents - had led to the allegation that "recollections were fabricated" and must be revised, the IPCC report said.

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James Ashley - 15 Jan 1998
Shot by police - Killed instantly

Innocent man asleep in his own home

Mr Ashley was asleep in bed at 4am when he was woken up by police breaking into his home as he got up naked ... he was shot and Mr Ashley was killed instantly. 

Just saying My LIFE WAS IN DANGER IS NOT EVIDENCE 

 No police officer has ever been -- killed or injured -- wearing a bullet proof jacket and helmet

One more innocent man .... NO THREAT TO THE POLICE in any way is shot and killed in his bedroom.

  1. When innocent people like James Ashley can be gunned down in their home by English police when they get up naked to see who is breaking into their house.  
  2. Then the police are not immediately charged with any offence 
  3. It shows that the police have a shoot to kill policy 
  4. Knowing they will not be charged and convicted.

Paul Whitehouse I don't know what happened 

26th June 2001 Paul Whitehouse said "I have always said that  I share with his family the desire to know the true facts about the circumstances surrounding it."

  • After more than 3 years Whitehouse says he still doesn't know what happed. 
  • It is a good job he had to resigned or be sacked.
  • What did he get paid for

Click here for the full report 

Killed instantly

Shot and killed as he got out of bed naked to see who was breaking into his home. 

Mr Ashley's sister Pauline said 
"What happened to my brother was "legalized murder"

Barbara Wilding, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who conducted one of the inquiries, criticized the entire justice system. "In circumstances such as these it is impossible for a prosecution to be mounted," she said.
So if a man walked into a police station and shot and killed a policeman she would say the same.

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Deborah Coles, co-director of INQUEST, the organization concerned with deaths in custody and their investigation, said:

“The failure to hold an inquest or a public inquiry into this death makes a mockery of the law

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Glen Howard 54yo - 1st Jan 1999 Excessive restraint and lack of medical care resulted in brain injury and his subsequent death. 
  1. The inquest began on 15 May 2000 
    Inquest jury verdict Excessive restraint and lack of medical care which resulted in brain injury and his subsequent death. 
  2. Glen Howard died on the 1st January 1999 after having been in a coma for almost thirteen months after being arrested and restrained by four police officers on the 10th Dec 1997 
  3. In a 'Biased' travesty of justice .... The Coroner 'Instructed' the jury NOT TO CONSIDER A VERDICT OF UNLAWFULLY KILLED ..... and told them to give an 'Open or accidental death verdict.
  4.  
  5. But the jury ignored his ruling that they should make no comment on the circumstances of the death and ruled that ........ 'Excessive restraint and lack of medical care contributed to Glen Howard’s death.'
  6. Nurse Donna Ryan said she climbed into the back of the police van when it arrived at casualty. "I turned the man over on to his back and I could see that he was cyanosed and that he was cold when I touched his neck for a pulse..." Unable to feel a pulse, she immediately started cardiac massage
  7. On arrival at the hospital, medical staff were of the view that Glenn Howard had not been breathing for ten minutes.
  8. An internal 'Unsupervised inquiry' was set up by the Metropolitan Police Service, under the supervision of the PCA. 

PCA chairman Sir Alistair Graham has said: "It is clear that by the time the police van reached the police station, Mr Howard had stopped breathing and had probably not been breathing for some little time."
Sir Alistair Graham adds that the officer "made no oral or visual inquiry into Glenn Howard's state of health; it is apparent that he gave little or no thought to the subject".

Deborah Coles, co-director of INQUEST To now learn that the two officers directly involved in the initial restraint that the jury ruled was 'excessive' are not even to face disciplinary charges makes a mockery of the police complaints system.


Died on the 1st January 1999 after having been in a coma for almost thirteen months

Excessive 'Restraint' and lack of medical care.
10 Dec 1997 Arrested  and restrained
then handcuffed by four police officers.

Glen Howard Died in the back of a police van.

A nurse at the inquest into Glenn's death described Mr Howard as very likeable with 'NO' history whatsoever of violent behaviour

 

 


This is English LAW - When the police kill innocent men, women and children.
THE LAW IS THERE TO PROTECT THE POLICE
NOT TO SEE JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIM OR THEIR FAMILY

Who represents the family in an English court when an innocent man or women is killed by the police
NOT THE POLICE and the CPS - they have always refused to charge the officer/s
(ad nauseam.) (ad nauseam means to a sickening repetition )

1985:  Sleeping 5yo boy 'Shot and killed' in police raid 

A five-year-old boy 5yo boy John who was the eldest of 3 brothers has been shot and killed in a police raid on his fathers home in Birmingham.

5yo John Shorthouse was killed after armed officers stormed into his home looking for his father, also named John. The boy was shot in the chest as an officer searched under his bed.

He was carried to a police car and pronounced dead at the hospital

Click here for the full report 

Shot and killed sleeping in bed - Or more likely hiding under the bed

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Roger Sylvester 30yo 19 Jan 1999 - 

Unlawfully killed verdict .... 3 October, 2003  

 
26 Nov 2004 Unlawfully killed verdict overturned by ONE JUDGE 

  1. Five years for the family to get an Inquest Jury Verdict of 'Unlawfully killed'
  2. The Metropolitan Police said it was "naturally disappointed with the 'Unlawfully Killed"  verdict, but took Mr Sylvester's death "extremely seriously." 
  3.  
  4. Then the police rushed around to find a judge who would overturn the Unlawfully killed verdict.

11 Jan 1999 arrested continuously 'Restrained' for 20 minutes -- Early the next day, Sylvester was critically ill in a coma on a life-support machine.

July 25, 2001 - Official police watchdog yesterday condemned Scotland Yard for keeping secret the punishment it had imposed on an officer charged with destroying two pages from his notebook. The officer is understood to have pleaded guilty. The Met police were "directed" to bring the charge against the officer having originally refusing to do so.

16th April 2003 Officers guilty over arrest inquiry
An internal inquiry has found three Metropolitan Police detectives investigating the arrest of a north London man, guilty of neglect of duty.

4 Oct 2003 All the officers are back at work and no disciplinary action has been taken

  1. The  police refused to release details of all the complaints.
    But the allegations included failure to preserve Mr Sylvester's home as a crime scene. 
  2. Failure to preserve the arresting officer's uniforms as evidence, and not identifying Mr Sylvester's clothing and personal effects as requiring forensic examination

    (Police 'Destroying Evidence' is standard practice and the police did this before when Mr Christopher Alder was left on a police station floor to die.) See the report below

    Police NOT CHARGED with destroying evidence to
    'Pervert the course of Justice'

Unlawfully killed verdict overturned
26 Nov 2004 A High Court judge has  quashed the 'Inquest jury' verdict that Roger Sylvester a mentally ill man was unlawfully killed by police. 

Apology for 'False press reports.'

Dick Fedorcio, head of the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau, 

  •  Issued a public apology  to the family of Roger Sylvester 

  • For the inaccurate and wholly misleading press release they issued on
    14 January 1999.

  • The press statement had referred to Roger Sylvester behaving in an ‘aggressive and vociferous’ manner

  • At the time of the press statement, Roger Sylvester was on a life

    support machine, effectively dead after being restrained by police.

'Restrained' for 20 minutes

19 Jan 1999 Doctors declared Sylvester dead and switched off his life support after 8 days


7 of the Officers who restrained
Mr R Sylvester are - Phillip Steedman, David Clohosy, Ian Smith, Sean Kiernan, Andrew Newman, Simon Creevy and John Anderson

Sylvester died from brain damage and cardiac arrest after spending eight days in a coma.

Officers involved get together for a meeting
Metropolitan Police Sergeant Andrew Newman said a meeting between eight officers after leaving the hospital where Roger Sylvester died was not to agree a joint story.
 
However the police officers involved wrote up their notes on the 'incident' together - a normal practice, apparently.
 (So it's usual for officers to have a meeting after a Death in custody?)

14th Jan 1999 Scotland Yard issued false press reports about Roger Sylvester
19th Jan 1999 Home Office pathologist also issued false reports about Roger Sylvester
He was reported as a crack addict but no traces of cocaine were found in his blood or urine. 

These false police reports were to blacken the character of Roger so he would become the focus of media attention and not the actions of the police who killed him.

Police apology On 27 April 1999 

The Metropolitan Police Service issued an apology to Roger Sylvester's family for having stated, in a press release issued on 14 January 1999, The police had previously maintained that the 999 caller on the night of 11 January 1999 had described Roger Sylvester as behaving in an ''aggressive and vociferous'' manner,

The caller had simply described Roger Sylvester as acting ''strangely''.

 

According to neighbours Roger was a quiet, well-balanced man. One neighbour said. "It just doesn't make sense."

Sarah Thomas 35yo - 6 Aug 1999 
A Chinese woman architectural design student
at North London University Sarah was a healthy 35 year old with no police record and no record of fits

The police said she was arrested using restraint in North London for what has been described as a minor public order offence. 

(So police are saying it is an offence for her to wait for her boyfriend outside her own flat)

Over £1 million has been paid by the Metropolitan Police, out of public funds, to people taking successful action against officers at Stoke Newington Police Station for wrongful arrest, unlawful violence etc.

Deborah Coles, co-director of Inquest, a campaign and advice group for people who have died in police custody, said she was "disturbed and angered" by Ms Thomas's death. "There has been an air of secrecy and confusion about her death. We can have no confidence in the PCA inquiry which relies on the police investigating other police," she said.

Chinese girls are small, --- slim and light build  --- so it beggars the question why/if restraint had to be used at all

A FIT HEALTHY WOMEN HAS A FIT ? - So the police say - No medical evidence to prove this

She was arrested as she waited for her boyfriend Paul Doyle outside their flat in Finnsbury Park in North London. The police say she was acting suspiciously. BUT NEVER SAY WHAT THIS WAS
Then the police said  ....  'she suffered a fit' ....
( A fit healthy women has a fit?) 

  1. Why would a healthy women have a fit.????
  2. So it seems Sarah Thomas was not ... ' Restrained' ... while being arrested ... but excessively restrained at the police station. .... Why and for what reason? 
  3. Reports say by the time she reached Homerton Hospital she was in a coma. She later died there. 
  4. (It seems more likely Sarah Thomas was in a coma at the police station before being taken to hospital.)
  5.  There is no medical evidence that Sarah had a fit? None was reported)
  6. A Post mortem should have been carried but no reports say one was. 

CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) 

The CPS in their 'Dishonourable' role of protect the police -  refused to charge the police officers.

Click here for the full report
'Restrained' death

By the time she reached hospital she was in a coma. Where she died 2 days later

14 June 2000 UK Director of Amnesty International, Kate Allen - report
The report underlined three deaths in police custody in the UK - Roger Sylvester in January, Sarah Thomas in August and Barry Stanley in November - as having "disputed circumstances".

It has to be remembered that many police have been convicted of attacking vulnerable women in the police station cells. 

90% of Chinese woman are just over 5ft tall very slim build ... which beggars the question why was Police Restraint of any type necessary?

Police are withholding all information as to how Sarah Thomas died

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3 Deaths in custody at Stoke Newington Police Station - There has been many more

Mr Kwame Wiredu dies in Stoke Newington Police Station 2002

Sarah Thomas 35yo fit healthy 
A Chinese woman architectural design student. Police say she had fit and died in Stoke Newington Police Station on 6th August 1999

Mr Lapite 34yo died  in Stoke Newington police station in December 1994, Inquest verdict unlawfully killed. He was found to have up to 45 injuries and died from asphyxiation after being held in a neck-hold.

Also just walking home Harry Stanley 46yo walking home shot by SO19 police 22 Sept 1999 It was the 11th death in five years involving the police in the Hackney and Stoke Newington area.

Shiji Lapite was stopped by two police officers for "acting suspiciously". Half an hour later he was dead. 

Christopher Alder 37yo- Ex paratrooper died 1st April 1998

A Falklands veteran who was also decorated for his service with the Army in Northern Ireland

24 August 2000 Inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing

  • Police destroyed evidence Christopher Alder's clothes and his 'BELT' before any forensic tests could be done.
  • Wiped blood from the police van, 
  • Police dry-cleaned their own clothes before full forensic tests could be carried out.
  • Police 'Destroying Evidence' is standard practice and the police did this again. See Roger Sylvester above. If anyone else but the police did this they would be convicted on this point alone because they destroyed evidence.

Police NOT CHARGED with destroying evidence to
'Pervert the course of Justice'

Just after being discharged from hospital

  1. Christopher Alder is unconscious 
  2. dragged into a police station and left lying face down on a cold police station floor for 12 minutes coughing up blood, 
  3. gasping for breath until finally he gave up 
  4. his fight for life and he died....  
  5. While 5 police officer looked on .

Clothes destroyed - Blood washed from van
Family solicitor Ruth Bundey criticized the coroner, Geoffrey Saul for his long, biased statement and the fact that Christopher Alder's clothes had been destroyed before any forensic tests could be done.

The police officers:

  • Destroyed Christopher Alder's clothes before any forensic tests could be done.
  • Wiped blood from the police van, 
  • Police Dry-cleaned their own clothes before full forensic tests could be carried out.
    .................. Do police always have their uniforms dry cleaned after just carrying a man into the police station?

    I would say NO .. but they would if there was a danger of evidence on their clothes they had assaulted
    Mr Christopher Alder
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  • Chief Superintendent Holt said the clothes had been destroyed because the 
  • blood stains were a "health hazard" 
  • So he didn't realize that it would also destroy any evidence of blood or other evidence from the police on Mr Alders clothes. (You can bet he did)
  • So Chief Sup. Holt has never heard of - Decomposing bodies
  • Sealed containers or protective clothes when forensic evidence is taken from decomposing bodies that have been buried for a long time.
  • What was he a  Chief Superintendent  of  ....  children crossing wardens

One more innocent man .... NO THREAT TO THE POLICE is left to die on the police station floor.

24 August 2000 After seven weeks of evidence the jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing Unlawfully killed -
The jury foreman
described the death as happening "while in a police van" and being laid on the floor of  the charge room".

9 April 2001Hull police officers failed to have the unanimous verdict of unlawful killing quashed which was given by the jury at the inquest into the death of Christopher Alder on 24 August 2000. They sought judicial review of the Coroner's summing up of the evidence to the jury in an attempt to overturn the verdict. Today the High Court refused to overturn the 'Unlawfully killed' verdict of the Inquest jury 

This shows that the police will never be charged and convicted of a death in custody.

  1. 21 June 2002 Trial of five police officers. Three months into the trial at Teesside Crown Court.
    Mr Justice Roderick Evans
      instructed the jury to acquit the 5 police constables of manslaughter and neglect of duty.
  2. The CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) seized the police CCTV tapes in April 1998 but the soundtrack was not presented by the CPS as evidence in court. A 'soundtrack' of officers making monkey noises and laughing.
  3. United Families and Friends Campaign attended the trial in Middlesbrough were, disturbed by the way they felt the prosecution was bring conducted.
  4. The feeble prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service made the prospects for justice remote from the start of the trial.

Janet Alder, the 38-year-old sister of the dead man, told BBC Look North "I am appalled and disgusted. The system stinks. An inquest decided Christopher died unlawfully, yet nobody is to blame.

The police, DPP, CPS and judges ignore any  evidence against the police.
  1. The Officers  refuse to answer 150 questions how and why Christopher Alder was left to die.
  2. A Hospital porter described Mr Alder  as being calm as he climbed into the van and sat down on his own.
  3. But after a 5 minute drive to the police station
  4. Mr Alder is unconscious and he has to be carried into the police station and is left on the floor with his trousers around his ankles ... coughing up blood gasping for breath and left to die.
    While police officers laugh and joke and make .....  monkey noises and references to bananas.
  5. Blood was coming out of Mr Alders mouth when he died?
  6. PC Dawson had told investigating officers from West Yorkshire Police Force that he thought Mr Alder was asleep in the police van on arrival at the station. 
  7. Then why did they  pull Mr Alder trousers down to his ankles if he was asleep?
  8. Obviously Mr Alder was awake  
  9. More likely it was to stop Mr Alder fighting back and kicking at the police as they attacked him until he was unconscious.
  10. Christopher Alder 37yo- Unlawfully killed -1st April 1998
    The Inquest jury foreman
    described the death as happening "while in a police van"

Later a police disciplinary inquiry conducted by Sean Price, the chief constable of Cleveland police cleared the following police officers of neglect of duty.
Sergeant John Dunn, 40, and PCs Neil Blakey, 42, Mark Ellerington, 37, Nigel Dawson, 41, and Matthew Barr, 38, all of Hull.

What utter rubbish
Humberside Police Federation chairman Stuart Downes  I'm delighted They did all they could to assist Christopher.

What utter rubbish, Everyone but you saw the video when the police left him on the police station floor to die.
Where in the English dictionary is the definition .... for an accident .... is when anyone in great difficulty gasping for air, is left to die

It just shows the contempt people in 'Police authority' have for people who are killed and die in police custody 

4 of the 5 Police officers retire on a full pension 
Humberside Police Authority says four of the five retiring officers will receive lump sums of between £45,000 and £66,000 and annual pensions of between £9,000 and £13,000.

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When a prisoner is still alive and can say what happened -- Police can be charged and found guilty for causing injury.

PC Ian Hill Pc Kim Burgess - December 22 1998 

PC Ian Hill has been  jailed for two years after breaking a prisoner's neck by deliberately driving erratically while transferring Richard Overy and Peter Rutherford in a Transit van last June.

Both officers were also convicted of perverting the course of justice by falsifying pocket books and witness statements.

Click here for the full report

Dead within 1 hour of being detained

The police station and police van was obviously NOT sealed as a crime scene to give the police time to destroy evidence
You don't have to be a detective to understand this was an act of guilty men.

Chief Superintendent Holt implies that blood stained clothing was destroyed because of a "health hazard"
So he implies there are 'No Blood stained clothes kept in any other case being investigated. What utter rubbish. How can any judge except this 'Fairy tale' 

Police withhold evidence

CCTV April 1998. The word 'Bananas and Monkey chants' heard on the police station video tapes ... made as Mr Alder lay dead on a police station floor were missed by police investigators for nearly four years until March 2002, a fortnight before the trial began.
(So the police and CPS say. Do they think the public is that stupid to believe that)

Mr Alder's family are furious that this evidence was never put before the jury before the 5 policeman were acquitted of manslaughter and neglect of duty. 

Crucial evidence

Clothes burnt and Dry cleaned

The police washed the blood off inside the van 

The police burned Mr Alders clothes  before a forensic test could be carried out on them

The police had their own uniforms Dry Cleaned

You don't have to be a detective or intelligent to understand this was an act of guilty men.

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West Yorkshire Police were called in to investigate in accordance with police procedure. There were blood stains in the van and their photographer had photographed them.
A forensic scientist was also called to make a report and when shown the photographs at the inquest said that these blood stains must have been wiped away since they were not in the van when she examined it.

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Jason Paul was awarded £30,000 in damages after he was falsely charged with Alder’s murder by Humberside police.
The jury ruled that “more likely than not the instruction to arrest for murder was given to deflect potential criticism (away from the police involvement) for the circumstances of Christopher Alder’s death.”

Mr Paul had in fact intervened to stop a fight between Christopher Alder and another man outside the Waterfront nightclub in Hull.

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A CCTV camera shows why police pull a victims trousers down - they are fighting back

A similar case of a victim with trousers around her ankles. 30 .07 2006

Toni Comer -
5' 6" and weighs 9st was fighting and kicking out at 3 policeman.
To stop her kicking, her jeans are pulled down to her ankles 
and then 1 of the 3 policeman is seen on a CCTV Punching her 5 times to get the handcuffs on her. He admitted  it was with maximum force.

Then she is seen being dragged away with (at least) her jeans around her ankles. With (four) leering police looking on.



When you see how much force the police was used on Toni a small young girl to make her give in.
It doesn't need much thought to realize how much force it would need to stop
Mr Alder a trained Army parachutist fighting back 

I  believe Mr Alder was attacked and his trousers were pulled around his ankles to stop him fighting back and the attack continued until he was unconscious

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3 CS GAS DEATHS
Mark Bell -  31 May 1998 - CS GASSED at home in his loft 
He was not threatening the police in any way
  1. Police officers squirted more than two canisters of CS gas into the unventilated loft area (so they could arrest him shortly before he died.  He had not threatened the police in any way. 
  2. 20 minutes passed during which no officer made any attempt to see how Mark had been effected by the CS Gas. A police sergeant arriving at the scene then discovered Mark was hanging from a rafter.
  3. The .... 'Narrow remit' ... of the inquest prevented full consideration of whether the use of CS in this case was 'unlawful'.

Ambulance paramedics who then attended gave evidence that they were so overwhelmed by the loft’s atmosphere that they were unable to perform resuscitation. There was never the slightest need to use the spray’.

4th May 1999 Family solicitor Ruth Bundey said : `We believe that they had no lawful justification for these actions but the inquest proceedings prevented a full inquiry’ The jury returned a verdict of `suicide whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed’.

Dr Alastir Hay Chemical Pathologist of Leeds University of Leeds
said " CS Gas should not be used in an enclosed area "

CS Gassed

Dead within 20 minutes

Mark Bell had real mental health problems recognized by a caring CID officer who had detained Mark (two nights before Mark was CS Gassed and died) and took Mark to hospital

CS gas is supposed to be a defensive weapon but far too often it is used in a situation outside the police’s own guidelines

Gas Chambers

This is the same as the Gas chambers used in World war 2. It had the same effect. An innocent man was killed.

No further information relating to the CS Gassing of Mark Bell and then leaving him to die is available.

Frank Roberts 76yo - 24 Sept 1998 He was not threatening the police in any way
CS GASSED
He was then taken to hospital in Bangor as a precaution. There, he collapsed and had surgery for an aneurysm, but died 10 days after surgery. (Why did a fit strong policeman feel it necessary to use CS Gas spray on a ..... 76yo frail weaker man)
CS Gassed on the 14th Sept 1998

Died in hospital 10 days later  

Eric Smith 52yo - 2 Nov 1998 - Open verdict - Jan 2003  CS GASSED

Police officers who sprayed Mr Smith with CS gas could have helped to trigger a fatal heart attack, an inquest has decided

  • Pathologists said although Mr Smith already had heart disease, his attack may have been brought on by the emotional stress of the arrest. 
  • Eric Smith, of Holforth Place, Armley, Leeds, suffered sudden heart failure and collapsed and died at his home three days after his arrest.
CS Gassed 30th Oct 1998. Attended hospital on 31st Oct 1998.  Died three days after his arrest
Ibrahima Sey 29yo - March 1996 Unlawfully killed CS GASSED

The inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing. 

  1. The consensus amongst the numerous and eminent pathologists who gave evidence is that the restraint in the prone face down position would have impaired breathing sufficiently to cause death. 
  2. Evidence at the inquest into Ibrahima Sey's death established that he was on his knees, with his hands cuffed behind his back and surrounded by over a dozen officers in the secure rear yard of the police station. 
  3. He died of asphyxia after being repeatedly sprayed with CS gas and being restrained face down for 15 minutes until he stopped breathing.

CPS ignore the evidence from numerous eminent pathologists and as always do not charge any police involved with the death of Mr Sey.

1st October 1998  (CPS) Crown Prosecution Service refused to charge the officers despite the unanimous verdict of 'Unlawfully killed' returned (to a standard of criminal proof) by the inquest jury, and the CPS ignored the evidence from numerous eminent pathologists.

CS Gassed

Dead within minutes after being sprayed with CS gas and 'Restrained' face down for 15 minutes until he stopped breathing.

An ambulance was called, and the ambulance crew have described their .....  surprise and shock ...... to find Mr Sey still on the floor of the custody area with his hands still 
 .... hand cuffed behind his back .... when he was showing no signs of life
whatsoever. They took him to hospital

where he was pronounced dead.

The CPS have always ignored the evidence of pathologists which show the police have acted unlawfully. 

Brian Douglas - May 1995 - Misadventure verdict

This disproves PC Tuffy account of what happened 

A pathologist said the blow inflicted by a police baton was the equivalent of him falling 11 times his own height onto his head. Three pathologists who agreed that he had been struck on the back of the head, which was consistent with accounts given by witnesses.

PC Tuffy claimed that he hit Brian on the shoulder and the baton slid up and hit Mr Douglas on the neck.  Several witnesses say they saw him raise his arm and bring the baton down on his head.  

The CPS refused to prosecute any police officer
9 August 1999 His Honour Gerald Butler QC - I have expressed my concern at this decision to the DPP and to the CCP at Central Casework. I have been given an undertaking that this case will receive full and careful re-consideration.
The CPS again refused to charge PC Tuffy

When Jack Straw, was Home secretary he ruled out a public inquiry after meeting the family of Mr Douglas and others who have died in police custody.

When the Conservatives were the government.

  • Jack Straw Labour MP was among 79 MPs that called for a .. 'public inquiry' into the death in custody on 23 April 1979 of Mr Blair Peach 
  • But when he is Home Secretary he refuses grieving families an inquiry.
  • This shows Jack Straw sheds crocodile tears when in opposition.

 

See the link to Corrupt English police thugs  on the 'Home' page.

Police jailed for - murder - rape of children - child porn - brutality - assault - grievous bodily harm - torture plot - Serious life injuries 

 

Died with massive head injuries.

Skull was fractured when he was hit with a with a new US-style baton truncheon but Brian was not taken to hospital until more than 12 hours after he was injured.

Brian's death was investigated by the Metropolitan Police's internal investigation bureau. However, the then Commissioner, Sir Paul Condon, refused consent for the disclosure of statements taken by the investigating officers

Secret Report 

Brian's death was investigated by the Metropolitan Police's internal investigation bureau.
Sir Paul Condon, refused consent to disclosure of statements taken by the investigating officers

Assault charges
The families have a right to know, For all deaths in custody

Have any of the police officers been accused of violence or assault or causing a death before or has their character been questioned.

If so how many times, whether substantiated or not. Because we know how the PCA cover up violence from the police in the past.

Has he any problems at home or work. Does he have any extremist or moderate views 

How many times has he been on a fire arms alert engagement

Dennis Stevens 29yo -18 Oct 1995 - Accidental death verdict

19th Dec 1997 - At the inquest the jury  returned a verdict of accidental death but only after receiving direction from the Coroner that they could only choose between accidental death or open verdict. 
Relatives had wanted a verdict of unlawful killing but the coroner would not allow this verdict to be considered

The jury heard ample evidence of fact to conclude:

  1. That the restraint was unlawful and dangerous 
  2. and/or grossly negligent, 
  3. to give a verdict of unlawful killing

Palmer v Home Office 2001
£50,000 settlement
achieved in claim for damages arising out of the restraint related death of Dennis Stevens in the custody of HMP Dartmoor.

 

'Restrained' death

Found dead after 24 hours handcuffed in a leather body belt.

Helen Shaw Co-director of INQUEST said: This verdict underlines the inadequacy of the inquest as a forum for the proper and thorough examination of controversial deaths in custody.

Kenneth Severin 25yo - 26 Nov 1995  Open verdict Jan 1997 
Death as a result of  postural asphyxia... 'Stranglehold.' ......  Prison Service condemned for  not disclosing details of their internal inquiry into Mr Severin's death to his family, who was stripped naked, handcuffed and held down by guards in the jail.

March 8, 1999 Report by Parliamentary Ombudsman Michael Buckley, to be published on Monday Complaints over the death of Kenneth Severin, 25, at Belmarsh Prison, south London in 1995, are "fully justified"
The report will also condemn the failure of the Prison Service to disclose details of their internal inquiry into Mr Severin's death to his family. In 1995 Mr Severin was dealt with in the same way as he would have been in 1990, despite the deaths which had occurred in the meantime. This was a deeply unsatisfactory state of affairs. 

The Prison Service said it accepted the criticisms in the report and "deeply regretted" the tragic death of Mr Severin.

Kenneth Severin became the seventh black prisoner to die during forcible restraint, prompting allegations of unchecked racism and violence in the country's jails.

Dead within minutes

'Restrained' death

Like so many other innocent people  who die in police custody  Mr Severin had no history of offending 

Up to seven officers bound his hands behind his back in ratchet cuffs, placed him face down on the mattress and stripped him

'Stripped Naked'
The police seem to enjoy taking the clothes off people to humiliate them.
 
Similar to the deaths of Christopher Alder and Alton Manning

Alton Manning  - Dec 1995 - Unlawfully killed 
Death as a result of  postural asphyxia...'Stranglehold' at Blakenhurst, near Redditch, Worcs.
  1. Evidence emerged at the Inquest that Alton died a brutal, inhuman, and violent death as a result of the excessive and unlawful violence
  2. The inquest exposed a catalogue of lies told by officers and management at HMP Blakenhurst in an attempt to cover up their responsibility for Alton's death.  
  3. The inquest forced them to give an account of the incident and the shocking details that came out horrified everyone.
  4. Including the coroner who planned to refer the case to the CPS even before the jury had decided that he was unlawfully killed

CPS Still refuse to charge any police officers

3 May, 2000 (As usual and against all the evidence with all deaths in custody)
David Calvert-Smith QC (DPP) Director of Public Prosecutions refused to prosecute any of the officers involved.
The relatives of Mr Alton Manning went to the High Court to challenge the decision by the (DPP)

17 May, 2000 In the Royal Courts of Justice the Lord Chief Justice ruled that the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) 'NOT' to commence any criminal proceedings against any of the prison officers involved in the restraint-related death of black prisoner Alton Manning at the private Blakenhurst Prison on 8 December 1995 was unsustainable in law.

Alice in Wonderland CPS ruling

June 2, 2001 - Guardian report by Vikram Dodd
Raju Bhatt - Accused the (CPS) Crown prosecution service of "Alice in Wonderland" reasoning after it again refused to prosecute the prison officers.

'Restrained' death

Died within minutes from asphyxiation after being 'Restrained'  in a neck lock so tightly that blood poured from his mouth.

Mr Manning was maneuvered out of the cell head first and carried half-naked along a corridor towards the dining area with Officer Nicholson at the head.

CPS No charges

Again this shows how the police, the CPS, and the DPP will do everything they can to protect police against prosecution 

The police and the CPS should be charged with perverting the course of justice.

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Richard Joseph O’Brien - 3 April 1994 -   Unlawfully killed - Father of seven children Death as a result of  postural asphyxia .... 'Stranglehold'  Mr O'Brien suffered injuries in 31 areas including 12 cuts to the face and head

In Nov 1995 an inquest jury found the 19 stone father of seven had been "unlawfully killed"

O’Brien (3) v The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police 2002
Damages totaling £324,000
in respect of a civil claim arising out of the unlawful killing of Richard O’Brien in police custody

CPS forced to charge police officers 

1999 Three officers Richard Ilett, 34, Gary Lockwood, 33, and James Barber, 29 stood trial for his manslaughter and were acquitted.
The not guilty verdict was against the evidence of the report of the pathologist who conducted a post-mortem on 4 April 1994 

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Evidence was suppressed: 

  1. Mr Coffey who was an independent witness to what was said and what happened to
    Mr R J O'Brien was not called to give evidence at the inquest. 
  2. Mr Coffey who made a statement to the police, but was not asked to give evidence at the Inquest said he heard Mr. O’Brien saying “You win, I can’t breathe”, and Mr. Coffey said that he told the police officers to “Let him up”. 
  3. He also says that he heard an officer saying 'We always win'. 
  4. He also spoke of another man saying 'What are you doing to this man?, he can’t breathe ...
  5. But the as I have said Mr Coffey an independent witness was not called to give evidence at the trial of the 3 police officers.

Compensation claim paid

May 2002 - Mr O'Brien's family won £324,000 compensation from Scotland Yard yesterday, ... but no apology... The settlement is made up of £99,000 to Alison O'Brien for false imprisonment and the psychological damage she suffered, the wrongful detention of two of the couple's children, and the assault of one of them.
Four children have won £225,000 in damages at the High Court in London.

DPP Biased decision not to charge police officers

DPP Dame Barbara Mills QC 24th July 1997
This again confirms the CPS and DPP protect the police from prosecution

Today in the High Court the DPP Dame Barbara Mills QC was forced to concede that the decision not to prosecute police officers involved in the death of Irishman Richard O’Brien was biased.
This comes a day after she made a similar concession over the death of Shiji Lapite in police custody.

BY NOW ANYONE SHOULD GET FED UP READING HOW THE PCA AND The CPS in their 'Dishonourable' role of protect the police - Always refuse to charge the police officers responsible for killing innocent men, women and children

Dead within 10 minutes of arrest while being 'Restrained'

'Restrained' death

The trouble was nothing to do with the O'Brien's but some officers took offence at Mr O'Brien leaving the hall and waiting outside for his family to join him and arrested Mr O'Brien on false charges.

Family won £324,000 compensation

From the reports of the trial when the officers were acquitted by a majority verdict.
....... It is time to ask who are on a jury ..... and how they are selected

Deborah Coles of Inquest ..."What's appalling is that the police have failed to apologize, despite the ...'unlawful killed' ... verdict, despite all the evidence." (The police have never apologized to any family for deaths in custody ... but then thugs don't do they))

(Did the police responsible get charged with ... 'Assault and false imprisonment'. No record of this so no they didn't ) 

Again this shows how the police, the CPS, and the DPP will do everything they can to protect police against prosecution 

The CPS should be charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice

Assault charges
The families have a right to know, For all deaths in custody

Have any of the police officers been accused of violence or assault or causing a death before or has their character been questioned.

If so how many times, whether substantiated or not. Because we know how the PCA cover up violence from the police in the past.

Has he any problems at home or work. Does he have any extremist or moderate views 

How many times has he been on a fire arms alert engagement

See the link to Corrupt English police thugs  on the 'Home' page.

Police jailed for - murder - rape of children - child porn - brutality - assault - grievous bodily harm - torture plot - Serious life injuries 

John Leo O’Reilly 54yo died on 17 July 1994  Open verdict 

Mr O’Reilly had fallen and suffered a fractured skull  but was arrested for being drunk and incapable and left in a cell for over 13 hours.

  1. His condition in the police cell was appalling. 
  2. The ambulance staff found him to be semi-dressed, shivering and lying in a pool of his own urine and vomit. 
  3. By the time he was treated in hospital he was in too poor a neurological state to be saved
  4. The CPS in their 'Dishonourable' role of protect the police - Refuse to charge the police officers.

At the first inquest, 12 October 1994, the jury were directed by the coroner to return a verdict of accidental death.

This 'Biased' verdict was overturned in the Divisional Court. In March 1996 the Court ruled that a fresh inquest should take place before a different Coroner.

The second inquest concluded on 3 March 1997 and returned an 'Open verdict.'

Dead within hours of arrest

Mr O’Reilly’s son, Ges O’Reilly said, "Our family feel that no responsible professionals should have treated a sick man in the way they did and evidence proved beyond reasonable doubt that the officers left our Dad in the cell and neither checked nor cared about him throughout the night.

The coroner should be charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Oluwashiji (Shiji) Lapite -16 Dec 1994  
Death as a result of  postural asphyxia ... 'Stranglehold'

The inquest jury returned a unanimous verdict of 'Unlawful killed', demonstrating that they did not believe the police version of events but believed that the force used on Shiji Lapite was unlawful, unreasonable and excessive. The two police officers are named as PC Paul Wright and
PC Andrew McCallum.

Lapite v Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1999
£15,000 settlement
in claim for damages arising out of unlawful killing of Oluwashijibomi Lapite

CPS in their 'Dishonourable' role of protect the police - Refused to charge the police officers.

Dr Rouse a pathologist recorded 36-45 separate injuries on Mr Lapite.  The evidence of the pathologists was not challenged

In August 1996, the CPS for the 2nd time refused to charge the police officers with their usual statement of 'insufficient evidence' against the officers involved.
The PCA also decided that the officers were not to face disciplinary charges.
(This is kill with no fear of a prosecution)

In July 1997, after a judicial review of the decisions by the CPS and PCA, an inquiry was ordered into the handling of this case and that of Irishman Richard O'Brien.

Police lied about their injuries

  1. PC Wright admitted applying the fatal neck hold to the deceased and biting him in the chest. 
  2. PC McCullum admitted kicking the deceased twice on the head as hard as he could.   
  3. Both officers maintained that Mr Lapite had tried to strangle PC Wright.

  4. But during the medical examinations conducted shortly afterwards, found no officer sustained any significant injury. 

  5. They refused to answer any questions when interviewed under caution in the course of the police investigation.

In a trial if you refuse to answer questions ...... you can and probably will be found guilty 

Lord Hoffmann "In English law... there is no absolute right to silence or privilege against self-incrimination"

But if your a policeman you can refuse to answer questions and the same assumption of guilt does not apply. Another rule of law that doesn't apply to the police. No wonder the public has no confidence in justice

 

18 March 2003 Murder accused remains silent
The trial judge Mr Justice Peter Crane warned Stephen Hughes the jury would be able to make inferences from Mr Hughes' decision
not to give evidence.

In another case when another man refused to answer questions:

Judge Sir Michael Astill told the defendant: "Mr Khyam,   "If you refuse to answer the questions you were being asked at that time without good cause, the jury may draw such inferences as appear proper from your failure to do so, do you understand?"

4 June 1998 The CPS and the Chief Crown Prosecutor (CCP) for Central Casework has decided that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute any police officer. 

The CPS and CCP never prosecute any police officer for any death so no surprise at this decision

Death from asphyxiation 
  • After being held in a neck-hold
  • kicked in the head, and the 
  • pathologists recorded 36-45 separate injuries.
  • This is not seen by the CCP as evidence

Died within 30 minutes from asphyxiation after being 'Restrained'  in a neck-hold and the larynx of Shiji Lapite was crushed
Pathologist recorded 36-45 separate injuries

'Restrained' death  

 Shiji's wife says, "They beat him to death. They killed him. Why should they kill him?" 

The CPS agreed to review its decision not to pursue charges against the police officers ...... following pressure from Mr Lapite's family, and an admission last July from Dame Barbara Mills, Director of Public Prosecutions, that her lawyers had made errors.

This 'Lame excuse' I was in fear of my life is shown for what it is - Rubbish

Both officers maintained that Mr Lapite had tried to strangle PC Wright and had used such a degree of force that PC Wright was in fear of his life.
However, during medical examinations conducted shortly afterwards, neither officer was found to have sustained significant injury.
Neither officer could not explain the high level of injuries received by Mr Lapite and little or none by themselves.

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3 Deaths in custody at Stoke Newington Police Station - There has been many more

Mr Kwame Wiredu dies in Stoke Newington Police Station 2002

Sarah Thomas 35yo fit healthy 
A Chinese woman architectural design student. Police say she had fit and died in Stoke Newington Police Station on 6th August 1999

Mr Lapite 34yo died  in Stoke Newington police station in December 1994, Inquest verdict unlawfully killed. He was found to have up to 45 injuries and died from asphyxiation after being held in a neck-hold.

Also just walking home Harry Stanley 46yo walking home shot by SO19 police 22 Sept 1999 It was the 11th death in five years involving the police in the Hackney and Stoke Newington area.

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Joy Gardner 40yo   - 1st Aug 1993 

Her son Graeme Burke was 5yo when he saw his mother die.  

July 28 1993 Police say Joy Gardner had tried to evade deportation before and had a record of violence. Mrs J Gardner died four days later

Despite six years of counselling and treatment from the children's trauma clinic at the Royal Free Hospital in London, he is still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

1995 .. 3 officers from the Alien Deportation Group acquitted of manslaughter. After the trial, the officers involved were reinstated and not disciplined. The Police Complaints Commission investigation file remains a secret

AN  'INQUEST' WAS REFUSED  .... after the coroner decided the matter had been sufficiently aired during the criminal trial.

'Restrained' death?

Died of suffocation within minutes after 13ft of sticking tape was wrapped round her head to 'Restrain' her

Medical evidence during the trial was contradictory Two experts said that, rather than suffocating, as the Crown claimed, Mrs Gardner died from a blow to the head.

 

 At least 10 'Restraint' deaths since 1992 - 

Home Office August 1992 .... 'Guidance issued for police officers in 'Restraint'...... following a restraint death in 1991) Since this date there have been at least 10 deaths due to 'Unlawful Restraint'.

The CPS in their 'Dishonourable' role of protect the police - Always refuse to charge the police officers.

The first prisoner to die, and the first to expose the risks from 'positional asphyxia', was Germaine Alexander in Brixton in December 1989

No police officers charged with any of the above deaths which shows that ...... The law doesn't apply to police thugs who kill innocent people. 
A post mortem examination can prove when a person has died from a 'stranglehold'

Leon Patterson 31yo - 1992 - Unlawfully Killed changed to Misadventure to which neglect contributed.

Inquest in 1993 the jury gave a verdict of  Unlawfully killed  Oct 1994 The 'Unlawfully Killed' verdict was quashed on appeal by police and police doctors.
(No reason is ever published ... ON WHAT EVIDENCE ....Unlawfully verdicts are quashed)

A third 'Inquest in 1996'

  • The inquest jury were ... 'Not' .... legally allowed to consider an ‘unlawful killing ‘ verdict. 
  • The jury were told  by the Manchester Coroner that neglect should not be added to the verdict but the jury rejected this advice and  on Monday 25 November returned a verdict of “Misadventure to which neglect contributed

A doctor was called once Leon arrived at Denton and arrived three hours later. 

  1. He told the inquest that he did not notice that Leon was  covered in wounds all over his body  
  2. Despite the fact that 12 other witnesses who had seen  Leon by the time the doctor arrived confirmed that his body was covered in injuries.
Even the Coroner was amazed

If this had happened in Baghdad Abu Ghraid prison it would have been a 'War crime.'

  • That a police doctor called to see Leon Patterson who had spent the day lying naked on a concrete floor moaning and incoherent 
  • The doctor left him to remain in that condition without even suggesting that he be covered with a blanket or given a mattress.
  •  
  • (In my opinion: The police and the 'Police Doctor' should at least be charged with 'Gross negligence'
  • If people left an animal in this condition they would be charged)
Found dead in the police cell six days after being arrested. 

In response to the verdict,  INQUEST said
This verdict is a damming indictment of the treatment Leon received while in the custody of the Greater Manchester Police. The attitude of the police and police doctors  was one of callous indifference and appalling neglect.
To leave a human being so obviously in need of care lying naked on a cold stone floor, incoherent and his body covered in injuries for over 20 hours can only be described as cruel, inhuman and degrading  treatment and action must be taken against those responsible.

2004 - 13 years later and no charges against anyone

Not a photo of Leon - just to show what CONDITION HE HAD 'BEEN LEFT IN

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Oliver Pryce 30yo 24th July 1990 - Unlawfully killed  

Police say he collapsed and died in a police van after being arrested by Middlesbrough police officers .
29th November 1991, an inquest recorded a verdict of unlawful killing. Even though the coroner ordered the case file to be sent back to the CPS for further consideration, the CPS still decided that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. No officer faced disciplinary charges. In 1993, Oliver's family issued a civil writ for damages alleging negligence, assault and battery and Cleveland Constabulary eventually admitted liability for the death. The family was awarded considerable damages but no apology was ever given.

Unlawfully killed  
Mr Blair Peach 33yo -  23 April 1979. Schoolteacher
Misadventure verdict......  the Met Police reached an out-of-court settlement with Mr Peach's brother in 1989. 
  • Jack Straw MP was among 79 MPs who called for a public inquiry into the incident at the time - a demand which was rejected by the then 'Conservative' government.
  • But when Jack Straw MP was in a position as Home Secretary to hold a public inquiry into this and other requests for public inquiries into death in custody he refused to do so. 
  • This clearly shows Jack Straw MP for what he really is. 

April 1999 Home Office minister Paul Boateng ruled out an investigation into the death of anti-racism  protester Blair Peach, who was killed by police who also seriously injured many others during a demonstration 20 years ago this month. 

Mr Boateng said in April 1999 too much time had elapsed to call a public inquiry into the death, which took place during a protest against a rally held by the far-right-wing National Front (NF).

It's the Police and the CPS that always stop a 'Public Inquiry' from the beginning. Then they say too much time has passed to hold one. Deliberately unintelligible gibberish

11 witnesses reported seeing Mr Peach struck by members of the Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group (SPG) in a side street.

Out-of-court settlement from the Met police

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One law for a policeman killed. None for Mr Blair Peach which shows how the sick CPS manipulate English justice.

Paul Boateng No investigation for Mr Blair Peach. Too much time has elapsed. 

But 11 years after a policeman was killed the criminal case is still rightly open for charges to be made. 18 Oct 2004 - A man has been charged with the murder of a police officer and a doorman 11 years ago. Mr Danso, 31, was gunned down at his home in Clapham, south London, in October 1993, and community policeman Mr Dunne was shot nearby.

What constitutes negligence? - This law doesn't apply to the police

Under English law, 'Negligence' amounts to a "breach of the duty of care"
So why at the very least have no  police officers been charged with this offence????
(Manslaughter by 'Gross negligence')

This is just one case of 'Negligence' which the CPS ... DID" ... prosecute because it wasn't a 'Death in custody.'

Case 1 - Gareth and Amanda Edwards   - 'Gross negligence'

27 July, 2001 - Gareth and Amanda Edwards were found guilty of manslaughter through ... 'Gross negligence' ....  after their daughter and a friend were killed while playing on a railway line. The jury decided that the Edwards had been criminally negligent in failing to adequately supervise the children in their care.

During the Edwards' trial, the judge instructed the jury to consider three questions: 

  1. whether the Edwards' breached a duty to the children, 
  2. whether breaching that duty resulted in their death, and 
  3. whether the breach was so serious that it could be characterized as 'Gross negligence' and therefore a crime.

The Police and CPS said their lack of care was so bad that the case deserved to be categorized as criminal.

The police and their relatives will never be questioned about the officers' drug or alcohol intake.

The families have a right to know --- about the police --- for all deaths in custody 

  1. The police and their relatives will never be questioned about the officers' drug or alcohol intake their mood or movements on the day an innocent person was killed.
  2. Does the officer have or had any family relation problems.
  3. Did the officer had a row with his family before going to work.
  4. Has he financial problems - which has made him angry
  5. Families will never know if the policeman who killed their, (father, son, daughter or wife) had any 'Previous' complaints made against them for assault of a similar nature whether it was substantiated or not by any investigation. because we all know what the PCA do to stop any charges being made against any police officers.

Have any of the police officers been accused of assault or causing a death before.. If so how many times, whether substantiated or not. Because we know how violent the police are from the police in the past. 

See the link to Corrupt English police thugs  on the 'Home' page.
Police jailed for - murder - rape of children - child porn - brutality - assault - grievous bodily harm - torture plot - Serious life injuries 

Police officers show a --- 'Lack of care' --- when people are killed in police custody

Leon Patterson 31yo - 1992 - Unlawfully Killed verdict by a coroner jury, changed to Misadventure to which neglect contributed.

So why are police officers not charged and found guilty of 'Gross negligence or manslaughter'

 

Unlawfully Killed is murder 

 

So why have the police in the following cases not been charged and convicted of  manslaughter because of  ... 'Gross negligence'

Christopher Alder -- Alton Manning -- Shiji Lapite -- Richard O'Brien  --   Oliver Pryce --
Ibrahima Sey  

Unlawfully killed verdicts of an Inquest jury verdicts which were changed by a High court judge sitting alone behind doors so police would not be charged with murder.

Police can always find a judge that will support the verdict they want and overturn a Jury verdict in Open court
Leon Patterson (Verdict quashed)
  --  Harry Stanley (Verdict quashed)   --  Roger Sylvester (Verdict quashed changed to an Open verdict)

Unlawful Arrest  

What the police and the CPS ... 'do not want the public to realize' is......When a policeman kills anyone and that person is 'NOT GUILTY' of any offence.
Then this is an 'Unlawful arrest.' 

Therefore the police officer responsible has committed a criminal offence.

Just saying My LIFE WAS IN DANGER IS NOT EVIDENCE

No police officer has ever been -- killed or injured -- wearing a bullet proof jacket and helmet

 

This is English LAW - When the police kill innocent men, women and children.
THE LAW IS THERE TO PROTECT THE POLICE
NOT TO SEE JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIM OR THEIR FAMILY

Who represents the family in an English court when an innocent man or women is killed by the police
NOT THE POLICE and the CPS - they have always refused to charge the officer/s

 

Any 'Police Officer or a Person of an Authority or the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service)' up to the DPP
that do not prosecute or submit evidence against a police officer
when there is evidence and just cause to do so, must be c
harged with
PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE

July 1997 the then DPP, Dame Barbara Mills QC, suffered acute embarrassment in the High Court when she was unable to justify her refusal to prosecute police officers in 3 separate cases (Lapite, O’Brien and Treadaway)

When the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is criticized in any way then you know why the police have no fear of being charged for any 'Deaths in custody.

Dame Barbara Mills QC was allowed to resigned in May 1998, following the delivery of the Butler Inquiry report in February 1998, which was very critical of her. She should have been charged with 'perverting the course of justice.'

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