A Long list of the law protecting the police. Just a few cases

James Ashley Judge Rafferty .... instructed the jury .... to return a not guilty verdict.

Christopher Alder Mr Justice Roderick Evans  instructed the jury .... to acquit 5 police officers of manslaughter and neglect of duty.

Leon Patterson  To stop police being charged. The 'Inquest jury' were told by the coroner that Neglect' should not be added to the verdict ------But the jury rejected this advice.

Harry Stanley  To stop police being charged   

• The High court judge 'Sitting alone' ignored all the evidence against the police who shot and killed Mr Stanley 
• and just quashed the 'Inquest jury verdict' of 'Unlawfully killed' 
• and refused permission to appeal against his biased decision.

Dennis Stevens   To stop police being charged  The Coroner  told the inquest jury they could only choose between accidental death or open verdict . The coroner would not allow Unlawfully killed to be considered

  Roger Sylvester To stop police being charged  The High court judge 'Sitting alone' ignored all the evidence against the police and overturned the 'Inquest jury verdict' of unlawful killed, partly because (he said) the jury had been misdirected by the coroner.

John Leo O’Reilly To stop police being charged  The Inquest jury were told by the coroner  to return a verdict of accidental death. This BIASED UNJUST VERDICT was QUASHED and an 'Open' verdict was given at the second inquest 

Glen Howard  To stop police being charged  In a travesty of justice ....The Coroner 'Instructed' the jury not to consider a verdict of 'Unlawfully killed and told the jury to give an 'Open or accidental death verdict 

Unwritten English law

I am the judge ---- I am the judge ---- 

• and I will quash any inquest jury verdict of 'Unlawfully killed against any police officer. 
• Who do these families think they are.
•  
• Don't the families realize the law must protect the police. ---- NOT THE VICTIM
• I am the judge

This cartoon is not meant to be funny- It shows English law as it is - Corrupt 

1. Judge Gerald Butler has criticized the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for failing to take action over a number of .... 'Deaths in police custody.' ....  Judge Gerald Butler attacked the agency's decision making system.
   He also called for the CPS to give serious consideration to publishing its reasons for deciding not to prosecute police officers in cases involving deaths in custody, especially where an inquest jury had returned a verdict of unlawful killing
   
2. Who else in England can defy a judge? - Only the CPS
   Three times High Court judges have ruled that the CPS decision not to prosecute [police officers] is unsustainable in law, after an unlawful killing inquest verdict, and four times the CPS has refused to prosecute, most recently on 1 June 2001.  and 
3. now on 17 July 2006 the CPS refuse to prosecute the police who shot Jean Charles de Menezes
   
4. Lord Justice Rose accused the CPS of taking a "flawed approach" in its decision not to prosecute four former members of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad.
   Lord Justice Rose and Mr Justice Jowitt quashed the DPP Dame B Mills decision and invited her to reconsider whether all or any of the police officers should be prosecuted.

5. July 24, 2001 - The official police watchdog condemned Scotland Yard for keeping secret the punishment it had imposed on an officer who destroyed two pages from his notebook relating to the death of Mr Sylvester in custody.
   This is why many people and world organizations say the PCA is corrupt and protects the police from being charged) January 1999 Roger Sylvester died after being restrained by eight officers outside his house so it is over 4 years for Roger's family to see someone held responsible for his death after the PCA and the CPS refused to bring any charges against the police officers.

6. 13 January, 2000 - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, says the existing (PCA) Police Complaints Authority appears ill-equipped to act as an independent watchdog. The Strasbourg-based committee claims there are "serious questions" about the independence and impartiality of the procedures used to process complaints about police misconduct.
   The court found Dame Barbara Mills QC former DPP Director public prosecutions Head of the CPS former director of public prosecutions had acted unlawfully in deciding there was insufficient evidence to prosecute police officers in two cases of deaths in custody of Shiji Lapite and Richard O'Brien and Derek Treadaway, who confessed to robbery after being tortured by the police had been awarded £50,000 compensation by a high court judge who described his treatment as "nothing less than torture". No police charged with any offence
   

7. 6 March, 2000 Last week, the CPS Inspectorate published a report entitled 'The Thematic Review of the Disclosure of Unused Material'.
   In a survey of 631 cases, the Inspectorate found that evidence written on 1 in 3 police forms was in insufficient detail or omitted.
   And a survey of barristers last year by the Criminal Bar Association and The British Academy of Forensic Sciences discovered over 200 cases involving problems of disclosure.

8. 29 March, 2000 John Woodruff and William Hickson 
   Judge Geoffrey Grigson  has ruled that their case was "permeated by the stench of police corruption"

9. 17 May 2000 - Amnesty International -
   The present system, with police officers investigating alleged crimes of their colleagues, cannot guarantee thorough, impartial and independent investigations. 

   • The fact that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decides whether to bring criminal charges against a police officer
   • In a 'Death in custody' case on the basis of such an investigation poses serious doubts as to the impartiality and independence of such decisions. 
   • (So many people know this and the CPS are therefore responsible for bringing English Law into disrepute)
    

10.   2000 CPS Wanted to convict this innocent man 
    Ben Lovejoy was knocked OFF his motor cycle by a van.
    Police recommendation to prosecute the van driver.
    But CPS prosecuted ............ Mr Ben Lovejoy .............. [the motor cyclist]
    When the police said they would give evidence against the van driver, who the police report of the accident indicated was at fault, not Ben Lovejoy. 
    Then the CPS withdrew the charges against Mr Lovejoy 

     
11. Young black man Delroy Hylton was attacked by police as he lay helpless in the back of a van, hands cuffed behind his back.
    Hylton's 'crime' had been to protest at the brutal arrest of his neighbours. But then he, too, was assaulted, arrested, detained, fingerprinted, then charged with affray and obstruction. 
    Charges thrown out when the case against his neighbour, David Charles, collapsed
    WPC Gillian Pattinson did nothing to stop the attack on Delroy Hylton or help him as he screamed in pain. She also failed to report the assault.
    She is still a WPC.
    PC Mark Astley who attacked Mr Hylton  was allowed to resign on a full pension before any disciplinary action was taken and not charged in court with any offence.
    
12. 28 April 1999  The lack of information before inquests has been a long-standing complaint of relatives, who say it makes it difficult for lawyers to challenge the police version of events or question their actions
13. 13 May 1999 - The Director of Public Prosecutions David Calvert-Smith .... has said there is a growing risk of miscarriages of justice in England and Wales, because evidence is being withheld from defence lawyers in criminal trials.
    David Calvert-Smith's remarks coincide with a British Academy of Forensic Sciences survey of barristers, which seems to confirm his fears. Report below 
    
14. June 10 1999 Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) highlighted one case where two constables used their batons to restrain a young man they claimed was drunk and violent.
    A video tape discovered later showed the man was walking home quite innocently when the officers called him over to their car and squirted his face with a water pistol.

15. This is called "trawling the margins" to improve performance figures.

16. Aug 1999 A report by the European watchdog on torture and degrading treatment  found that
    NO ONE in the CPS including the DPP Dame B Mills, wanted to take responsibility for the decision not to prosecute in the O'Brien and Lapite cases.
    (So a death in police custody is not serious enough for her to look at it personally)
    

17. 15 Jan 1998 Home Affairs Select Committee's recommendations, major changes in the police complaints procedure are likely. Allegations of corruption and dishonesty against police will be handled more quickly under proposals announced by MPs. The committee also wants rules to be tightened to stop officers under suspicion from wriggling out of hearings by claiming illness. IT WAS 2004 BEFORE SOME OF THESE RECOMMENDATION WERE CARRIED OUT.
    
18. May 20, 1998 Ministers were deeply embarrassed at the CPS's failure to launch prosecutions over deaths in police custody and MPs delivered a number of reports slamming the service's operation and bureaucracy.
    
19. 23 July 1998 - CPS withheld evidence from the defence council of Oliver Thomson. The judge said the CPS's ... "error" was "totally unacceptable".
    Judge Barrington Black ordered that the government prosecutors to pay £5,000 towards the costs of what he called an "horrendous episode in the courts of justice 
    
20. 31 Aug 1998 Police and CPS withheld video evidence that proved Brent Reid an innocent man was convicted and jailed. Brent Reid was released when specialist solicitor Kevin Thomlinson  proved corrupt 'West Mercia police' withheld the evidence. The CPS has also never forwarded the video tape to Mr Kevin Thomlinson only told the solicitor what was on the video.
    
21. 16 October 1998 Speaking at a Police Complaints Authority conference in London
    Alun Michael a government minister said senior officers could not routinely use the possibility of prejudicing criminal, civil or disciplinary proceedings as an "excuse to hide behind" when faced with bereaved families' requests for information.
22. November 2, 1998 Police corruption probes in 19 forces. 
    Nearly half of all police forces in England and Wales have officers facing charges of corruption or dishonesty, according to a survey by The Times newspaper.
    Altogether 105 police officers in 19 out of 43 forces are under investigation. They include high-ranking officers such as superintendents and detective chief inspectors. London's Metropolitan Police has by far the greatest problem with 51 officers suspended.
23. 15 December 1998 Sir Paul Condon,  believes that up to 250 of his officers are corrupt.  
    Fifty officers have already been suspended and 20 charged as part of Sir Paul's purge against dishonest or "bent" officers. 
    
24. 22 December 1998 Pc Kim Burgess and PC Ian Hill Both officers were convicted of perverting the course of justice by falsifying pocket books and witness statements.
    PC Hill was found guilty of causing actual bodily harm to Mr Overy, who was cut and bruised, and causing grievous bodily harm and unlawfully wounding to Mr Rutherford, who broke his neck and needed stitches.
    
25. 10 December 1997 ALLAN Cook 19yo student at Kingston University was assaulted and badly beaten up for no reason by two officers from the Metropolitan police.
     Mr Cook was charged with grievous bodily harm and seriously assaulting a WPC police officer.
    7 December 1998 Mr Cook was acquitted after an embarrassing video a CCTV video from a jeweller's shop near the scene of the assault showed Allan Cook nervously moving away from the police in exactly the way he described making nonsense of the police story and the charges were dropped. 
    As usual ....... No police charged with false arrest or grievous bodily harm or serious assault.
    
26. The Ombudsman found fully justified the complaint by the family of Mr Kenneth Severin, who died while on remand in HM Prison Belmarsh, that the Prison service (PS) had not made the internal investigation report available to them before the inquest into his death.
27. Detective Inspector Stuart Lewis, and other South Wales police officers have taken early retirement on full pension despite a catalogue of complaints against them.
28. June, 1991, 39 members of the National Union of Mineworkers collectively settled their action against the Chief constable of South Yorkshire police for a total of £425,000.

THEN PEOPLE SAY  WE HAVE THE BEST POLICE FORCE IN THE WORLD ---- IF WE HAVE -----  IT'S NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF

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Unlawful act/constructive manslaughter

• A defendant is guilty of this sub-category of manslaughter if he intentionally does an act which is unlawful and dangerous which inadvertently causes death
  (DPP v Newbury [1977] AC 500 HL)
• It is not necessary to prove that the unlawful and dangerous act was aimed at any person, or in particular the person whose death was caused
  (R v Mitchell [1983] QB 741 CA)
• Neither is it necessary to prove that the defendant knew that his act was dangerous or unlawful
  (Newbury) and (R v 0wino, unreported 13 March 1995)
• For an act to be unlawful within the meaning of this rule, it must be criminally not merely civilly wrong
  (R v Franklin (1883) 15 Cox CC 163)
• 'Danger' is determined objectively. The act must be such that all sober and reasonable people would inevitably recognize that must subject the other person to at least the risk of some harm, even if not serious harm
  (R v Church [1966] 1 QB 59)

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