“A senior Metropolitan police officer has been found to have ‘recklessly’ misled two pathologists over the possible cause of Ian Tomlinson’s death at the G20 protests in London.”
The Guardian, 9th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police has paid out more than £250,000 in damages to people arrested in connection with the G20 protests in London in 2009, the bulk of it to 66 activists held during a controversial raid on a squatted building.”
The Guardian, 9th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Police forces are sacking almost 160 officers on average each year after misconduct hearings held in private, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act.”
The Guardian, 9th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Criminal suspects are to be charged through the post under radical changes to free up police time, Theresa May will reveal today.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Controversial surveillance cameras set up in two predominantly Muslim neighbourhoods will start to be removed today, police said.”
The Independent, 9th May 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The power to decide whether a suspect is to be charged is to be taken from crown prosecutors and handed back to the police in more than 80% of cases, the home secretary, Theresa May, will promise.”
The Guardian, 9th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“For two years the family of Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller unlawfully killed by a police officer, have maintained their belief that police withheld crucial information from them in what they have repeatedly described as a cover-up. There is now solid evidence indicating they were right to suspect that they and others were misled.”
The Guardian, 9th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“PC Simon Harwood, the police officer who inadvertently killed Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests, will be forced to explain his actions for the second time in public after a rare move to hold his disciplinary proceedings in the open.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A British Muslim man accused of raising funds for terrorist organisations was subjected to a ‘sustained and very violent assault’ during his arrest by four specialist officers from the Metropolitan police, a court has heard.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s most senior prosecutor has said he was considering whether to prosecute the police officer who attacked Ian Tomlinson for manslaughter after an inquest jury found that the newspaper seller had been unlawfully killed.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has ordered a review of his decision last year not to prosecute anyone in connection with the death of Ian Tomlinson.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A jury in the inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson has concluded he was unlawfully killed by a police officer at the G20 protests.”
The Guardian, 3rd May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An 86-year-old man has been granted permission to launch a lawsuit against police chiefs who have classified him as a ‘domestic extremist’ and kept a detailed record of his political activities on a clandestine database.”
The Guardian, 3rd May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former West Yorkshire Police officer has been jailed for three years and nine months for a string of sex offences against children.”
BBC News, 28th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A senior police officer is calling on the government to review whether laws governing cyber-stalking in the UK are fit for purpose.”
BBC News, 1st May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The jury at the inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson has been told it can return a verdict of unlawful killing, but only if it is satisfied the police officer who beat him with a baton and shoved him to the ground acted deliberately and illegally.”
The Guardian, 28th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The independent police watchdog is investigating after a father-to-be died in police custody following an apparent altercation at a pub in east London.”
The Guardian, 19th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Results from cases heard at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court are being put on Twitter by West Midlands Police.”
BBC News, 19th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Significant new evidence proves that Ian Tomlinson died from injuries caused by the trauma of being pushed to the ground and not from natural causes, his inquest heard yesterday.”
The Independent, 19th April 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Women in England and Wales are still more at risk of crime in their own homes than anywhere else, the Director of Public Prosecutions said in a speech today entitled ‘Domestic Violence: the facts, the issues, the future’.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 12th April 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
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