source: Socialist Worker
published: 1 November 2016
A police officer lied in July 2012 when he gave evidence to the inquest into the death of Sean Rigg, a court heard this week.
Sean died in Brixton police station on 21 August 2008. Paul White was the custody sergeant in the police station on that day.
CCTV has shown that, when Sean was brought to the police station, he was held in a van in the yard.
After ten minutes he was moved to a caged area in the police station.
source: The Guardian
published: 3 October 2016
In the past few days a number of politicians and former generals have criticised the so-called hounding of British soldiers by what they claim are just money-grabbing lawyers launching ill-founded cases into alleged wartime abuse.
Criticising the work of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat), Tim Collins, the retired colonel who led British troops in Iraq, said the allegations were being made by “parasitic lawyers”. Theresa May has said she wants to end the “industry” of vexatious claims. And Tony Blair, who launched the military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, said: “I am very sorry that our soldiers and their families have been put through this ordeal.”
source: Express & Star
published: 26 September 2016
Relatives bereaved by the 1974 terror attacks had asked Home Secretary Amber Rudd to establish a fund similar to that created for the families represented at the Hillsborough stadium disaster inquests.
Ms Rudd has turned down the request, made by nine of the families, but said she supports their application for legal aid funding through the conventional route of the independent Legal Aid Agency (LAA). The families’ lawyers have been working pro bono to date.
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