Category: Deaths in Custody
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Jean Charles De Menezes commemoration
I have just received this from the injusticefilm.co.uk mailing list: Sunday 22nd January 2006 1 p.m. Stockwell Tube Station Commemoration of the 6 month anniversary of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes On 22nd July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by police at Stockwell tube station. He was shot 8 times, 7…
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De Menenez charges ‘possible’
The IPCC is likely to pass a file on the Jean De Menenez case to the Crown Prosecution Service, the BBC reports. The United Friends and Families Campaign has launched an online petition calling for prosecutions. Our demands are: – NO SHOOT TO KILL – PROSECUTE OFFICERS RESPONSIBLE – NO IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION The NO…
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Wandsworth expose sheds new light on old questions
I have just watched Donal MacIntyre’s Inside Wandsworth Prison investigation on Channel Five. I found the revelations of corruption at the prison during the governorship of Jim Heavens, particularly disturbing as his name has come up in some of my own past work on deaths in custody. In the Irish World in May 2001, I…
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Speak no ill: the James Ashley case
The Independent Police Complaints Authority announced earlier this week that it is to look into Sir Ian Blair’s handling of the Jean Charles de Menezes case, following a complaint from the dead man’s family over his comments about the shooting. As it happens, I have just received an interesting document about the case of James…
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End Impunity Campaign moves to Westminster
The SDLP is set to lead a cross-party attempt to ban human rights abusers from the British armed forces. The move has been inspired by the Army’s ongoing retention of Mark Wright and James Fisher, the two soldiers convicted of the murder of 19-year-old Peter McBride in Belfast in 1992. The parliamentary campaign will be…
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Shoot to Kill Protest at Downing Street
Protesters against deaths in custody in Britain took their campaign to Downing Street on Saturday. Among those taking part in the annual event were relatives of Jean Charles De Menezes, the 27-year-old Brazilian shot dead by London police in July, and of Harry Stanley, the 46-year-old Scotsman killed in East London in 1999 by police…
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Operation Kratos report due
The Metropolitan Police Authority is due to produce a review of the so-called ‘shoot to kill’ strategy, operation Kratos tomorrow. The report will include details of the number of suspected suicide bomber episodes: Frequency of incidents 14. The following table outlines the number of spontaneous incidents resulting from calls from members of the public about…
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Deaths in custody Downing Street March
The United Friends and Families Campaign hold their annual march to Downing Street on Saturday: The United Families & Friends Campaign – the national coalition of death in custody family campaigns – today announced its seventh annual remembrance procession. The event will see hundreds of family members of those that have died in state custody…
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No charges over Harry Stanley killing
The Scotsman has a good article on the decision yesterday not to prosecute the policemen who shot Harry Stanley in 1999. Deborah Coles, co-director of the family support group Inquest, said the “abhorrent” decision to clear the marksmen would undermine public confidence in the police. She said that the officers’ accounts of the events surrounding…
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De Menenez family want inquiry to look at Special Reconnaissance Regiment
The families of people shot dead by police in Britain have called for a public inquiry to look at the role of soldiers from the new Special Reconnaissance Regiment in the death of Jean Charles De Menezes. Relatives of De Menezes, the Brazilian shot dead by police in London on 22 July, were among those…