Rhaid i saethu Mark Duggan yn cael ei ymchwilio yn agored

gan: Comment is free | The Guardian
gyhoeddi: 27 Mawrth 2012

Mae'r newyddion bod y cwest i saethu Mark Duggan wedi cael ei ohirio ymhellach, o fis Medi 2012 hyd at fis Ionawr 2013, comes as no great surprise to those of us who have been through these types of investigations.

Delays became par for the course in the inquests into the deaths of Cynthia Jarrett and Joy Gardner.

It took four years for Roger Sylvester, another Tottenham resident whose life ended in police custody, to be declared “unlawfully killed”, a verdict that was quashed a year later. And the inquest into the 2005 shooting of Azelle Rodney by Metropolitan police officers is still to be heard.

What was surprising in this case, shocking even, was the revelation from the Independent Police Complaints Commission that, in investigating the shooting, it has unearthed such sensitive material over police decision-making that it is unable to reveal it, even to the inquest coroner.

Darllenwch yr erthygl lawn >

Postiwyd gan Larry Fedja ar 05/04/2012. Filed under Heddlu greulondeb & Lladd,Polisi & Diwygio. Gallwch ddilyn unrhyw ymatebion i'r cofnod hwn drwy'r RSS 2.0. Gallwch adael ymateb neu trackback i'r cofnod hwn