8 February 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Habib Ullah officer ‘had had no training in searching suspects’ mouths’

source: Bucks Free Press
published: 6 February 2015

A police officer involved in the restraint of a man who died in police custody told an inquest he had received no training in how to search for an item concealed in someone’s mouth.

DC Richard Bazeley was one of a number of Thames Valley Police officers who restrained Habib Ullah during a stop and search in High Wycombe, during which a packet of drugs became lodged in Mr Ullah’s throat.

During the restraint Mr Ullah was repeatedly slapped on the back to get him to cough up the packet, before another officer tried to prise his mouth open, the inquest heard on Tuesday.

17 January 201521 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Lessons learned from Pat Finucane murder, says David Cameron

source: The Guardian
published: 16 January 2015

MI5, police and military intelligence’s use of informers has been transformed due to lessons learned from the Pat Finucane murder scandal, David Cameron has said.

The prime minister outlined to parliament how the government had responded to the findings of a damning report two years ago on the loyalist killing in 1989.

8 January 201521 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Death of Tanisha Anderson, ruled a homicide

source: The Huff Post
published: 2 January 2015

The death of Tanisha Anderson, the Cleveland woman who died in police custody late last year, has been ruled a homicide.

According to the Northeast Ohio Media Group, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office announced its assessment on Friday, saying that the woman died “as a result of being physically restrained in a prone position by Cleveland police.”

Anderson suffered from heart disease and mental illness. The medical examiner’s office said those conditions were also factors in her death, per CBS News.