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Powell Family: Complaints against police & Telegraph

from a Press Release by: INQUEST
published: 15th December 2010

Claris Powell, mother of Mikey Powell, has made a police complaint that the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police has misled the Police Authority in his report on the inquest into the death of Mikey Powell and failed to take any action as a result of the verdict.

Mikey Powell was handcuffed by police and put on the floor of a police van which drove to Thornhill Road Police Station in Birmingham in September 2003.

The jury found in December 2009 that Mikey Powell died of positional asphyxia in the back of a police van and that he was lying on his front on arrival at the police station, contrary to the van officers’ evidence at the inquest.

15 December 201016 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Inquest into death of Habib Ullah abandoned

all credits: Bucks Free Press
published: 14th December 2010

The inquest into the death of Habib Ullah has been abandoned midway through – after it emerged a solicitor had advised police officers to alter their statements the day after the incident.

Evidence given by witnesses during the eight-day proceedings has prompted the Independent Police Complaints Commission to reopen an investigation.

The proceedings in Iver were halted yesterday afternoon. The investigation will now conclude before the inquest can be heard with a new jury.

Mr Ullah, 39, died on July 3, 2008 after being restrained by officers in High Wycombe who were trying to force a package of drugs out of his mouth. The father-of-three suffered a cardiac arrest.

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Father of graffiti artist found hanged blasts prison system

originally published by: News Shopper
published: 2nd December 2010

The father of a graffiti artist found hanged in jail has hit out at the “incompetence” of the prison system. An inquest into the death of 23-year-old Tom Collister, from Penge, has revealed multiple failures in the care provided.

Tom was found dead in his prison cell at HMP Camp Hill in Newport on the Isle of Wight on the morning of February 7 last year.

He had been serving a 30-month sentence for conspiracy to commit criminal damage, which had been slashed by 10 months four days earlier following an appeal hearing.

Tom, who lived with his mother in Stembridge Road, was in a gang of graffiti artists which carried out a two-year campaign of vandalism on trains and stations around south London.