Mortuary managers face prosecution after they gave custody death family the wrong body

originally by: Mail Online
published: 1 May 2013

Three mortuary managers could face prosecution after missing 10 chances to realise they had given the family of a paratrooper who died in custody the wrong body for burial.

Christopher Alder’s relatives unwittingly buried the body of a 77-year-old woman in 2000 but 11 years later it was realised there had been a mistake.

The error was only discovered when the Nigerian family of Grace Kamara arrived to prepare her body for burial in November 2011.

3 May 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Police constables cleared of allowing mentally ill man to die in front of them

originally by: Mail Online
published: 3 May 2013

Two police officers have been found not guilty of allowing a mentally ill man to die in front of them after detaining him in his home.

PCs Maurice Leigh and Neil Bowdery, of Kent Police, both denied misconduct in public office over the death of paranoid schizophrenic Colin Holt.

Mr Holt, 52, died from positional asphyxia at his flat in Gillingham, Kent, on August 30, 2010 after the officers were called to return him to hospital under a Mental Health Act order.

28 April 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Man dies after police taser incident

originally by: The Guardian
published: 26 April 2013

A man has died after suffering horrific burns in an incident when he was “Tasered” by a police officer while doused in a flammable liquid.

Police were called to the home of 32-year-old Andrew Pimlott in Plymouth following a domestic disturbance and told that he was in the garden and had a can of flammable liquid with him. An officer discharged a Taser and, according to eye witnesses, Pimlott was seen “fully on fire from top to bottom”. One of the police officers jumped on him to try to put out the flames.