Update: Development in the Brendan case

Brendan Dixon
Brendan Dixon

Update from Brendan Dixon’s supporters

The decision on Brendan’s case >

There has been more news of the non-disclosure and it really don’t look good for Strathclyde police with statements hidden, so it looks like back to the privy council about the growing list of Non-disclosure in the case.

Brendan now can get the new evidence and prove Lee Sheville and Toni Wallace lied in court, also Joseph Leiper can be proven to have lied in court they never mentioned the visitors to the house that seen Brendan fixing a car that morning. (There were 6 visitors the police being one for a domestic between the householders, and a midwife among others.

We are still trying to get the phone records for My Daughter’s mobile that the police have and our house incoming and outgoings for that day.

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Coker Family Statement follows inquest

Coker family vigil 6th August 2007
Coker family vigil 6th August 2007

submitted by: Ken Fero
published: 3rd March 2010

The family of Paul Coker who died in police custody on 6th August 2005, today welcomed the verdict of the jury at Southwark Coroners’ Court which was highly critical of the care and treatment Mr Coker received from the police and the police doctor.

The jury found Mr Coker was suffering with a form of Excited Delirium (otherwise known as Acute Behavioural Disorder) which is a very serious condition and which can prove fatal unless treated straight away.

Police officers failed to recognise that Mr Coker was suffering with this condition and the jury found that this was because of failures in police training and also because of the failure of police officers to communicate properly with each other and with the police doctor.

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BART fires cop who helped detain Oscar Grant

originally published by: FSGate
26th March 2010

BART’s police department has fired an officer who helped detain train rider Oscar Grant before he was fatally shot by a second officer at Oakland’s Fruitvale Station on Jan. 1, 2009.

Marysol Domenici, 29, was fired Wednesday by interim Police Chief Dash Butler. He followed the recommendation of a law firm BART hired to do an independent internal affairs probe into the shooting by former Officer Johannes Mehserle, who faces a murder trial this summer.

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