‘A former soldier found hanged gave no indication he was intending to harm himself, an inquest has heard.’
BBC News, 30th January 2014
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‘A Bristol hospital has apologised over the treatment a four-year-old heart patient received on a ward after his parents condemned his care as “shambolic”.’
The Independent, 23rd January 2014
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‘Police officers could be banned from conferring after fatal shootings in the wake of the death of Mark Duggan.’
The Independent, 17th January 2014
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‘The Metropolitan Police has admitted it was wrong not to review its use of the “hard stop” tactic employed in the shooting of Mark Duggan in 2011, despite being advised to do so by the complaints watchdog.’
The Guardian, 20th January 2014
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‘The police watchdog has apologised to Mark Duggan’s family for “wrongly” telling the media he had fired at police before he was shot.’
BBC News, 17th January 2014
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‘The coroner in the Mark Duggan inquest is to invite the dead man’s family to help shape police firearms procedure. The senior circuit judge Keith Cutler, who is preparing recommendations on firearms procedure for the home secretary after issues raised at the inquest, described his decision to consult the family as “unusual, perhaps unique” but the right thing to do to achieve transparency.’
The Guardian, 12th January 2014
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‘The police marksman who killed Mark Duggan will be allowed to have his gun back and return to armed duties. The officer was found to have lawfully killed Duggan by an inquest jury last week though the jury decided his account of the shooting, in which he said Duggan had had a gun in his hand, was wrong.’
The Guardian, 12th January 2014
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‘To the police on the job, it started with a “textbook” stop of a minicab carrying a dangerous gangster. Three police cars forced Mark Duggan’s vehicle to pull over following intelligence that he had picked up a gun from a criminal associate.’
The Independent, 9th January 2014
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‘Mark Duggan, whose death sparked riots in England in 2011, was lawfully killed by police, an inquest jury has said by a majority of 8 to 2.’
BBC News, 8th January 2014
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‘A verdict in the inquest into the death of Mark Duggan is expected to be delivered at 3.30pm at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London.’
The Guardian, 8th January 2014
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‘A bitter row has broken out between one of Britain’s biggest police forces and the Independent Police Complaints Commission over the case of the gunman Raoul Moat.’
The Independent, 5th January 2014
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‘The jury at the inquest into the death of Mark Duggan, shot by police, has retired to consider its ruling.’
BBC News, 11th December 2013
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‘Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Assistant Deputy Coroner for Inner North London [2013] EWHC 3724 (Admin). The Foreign Secretary successfully appealed against an order for disclosure of secret documents to the Inquest for the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 5th December 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The government has successfully won a court order blocking the release of secret information in relation to the death of the former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko. Alexander Litvinenko fell ill after a meeting with former KGB contacts in London in 2006. It is the latest legal twist in what is becoming an ever-more complicated legal fight between his widow, the proposed coroner and ministers over what should or should not be made public about the nature of his death.’
BBC News, 27th November 2013
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‘The government has won a high court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.’
The Guardian, 27th November 2013
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‘Police launch a criminal investigation into the alleged manipulation of cancer waiting lists at a hospital.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th November 2013
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‘A coroner has said a council switching off street lights as a cost-cutting measure contributed to the death of a student. The verdict came following an inquest into the death of 18-year-old Warwick University student Archie Wellbelove, who died after he was hit by a taxi on the A452 near Leamington in the early hours of December 7 2012.’
Daily Telegraph, 25th November 2013
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“An inquest heard how a policewoman died at Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, just hours after childbirth, after staff failed to replace lost blood, which triggered a cardiac arrest. The case of Diane Patt, 34, follows an inquest earlier this year into the death of a baby, whose skull was crushed by excessive use of forceps. Yesterday regulators placed the trust in special measures, after inspectors found that staff were put under pressure to falsify data, leaving some patients waiting months for urgent cancer treatment.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th December 2013
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“The MI6 spy found dead in a bag three years ago probably locked himself in the holdall and died as a result of a tragic accident, Scotland Yard has said.”
The Guardian, 13th November 2013
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