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Police watchdog investigates death of man in Birmingham

originally by: BBC News
3rd April 2011

Kingsley Burrell Brown was detained under the Mental Health Act last Sunday after officers attended an incident on Iknield Port Road, Birmingham. He was admitted to a unit in the city and later moved to a hospital where he died on Thursday, police said. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said post-mortem test results may be known early next week.

Maxi Hayles, chairman of the Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit, told BBC News Mr Brown’s family were waiting to be told what caused his death at the city’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

The IPCC said it had started an investigation into the circumstances around his death.

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Metropolitan Police apology over Daniel Morgan murder

originally by: BBC News
31st March 2011

Scotland Yard has apologised to the family of a private detective killed in south-east London in 1987, for a corrupt investigation into his death. Daniel Morgan, 37, was found with an axe in his head in Sydenham but nobody has ever been convicted of murder. Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin told a Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) meeting “failings” by officers. The entire legal case collapsed this month.

Mr Morgan’s family has called for a full judicial inquiry. The father-of-two from Monmouthshire was found with an axe in his skull in a car park outside the Golden Lion pub. Five people were arrested in 2008 but none was ever convicted.

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Supreme Court declines case of Troy Davis

originally by: The Christian Science Monitor
published: 28th March 2011

The US Supreme Court on dismissed the appeal of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis, whose loud and persistent claims of innocence attracted the support of death penalty opponents around the world and forced a series of extra hearings to investigate his case. In the end, court after court rejected his pleas.

On Monday the high court, without comment, dismissed three appeals filed on Mr. Davis’s behalf. The action opens the way for Georgia authorities to set an execution date. Davis was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1989 shooting death of off-duty Savannah Police Officer Mark MacPhail. He’s been on death row since 1991.