31 August 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

‘Police were spying rather than looking for killers’

source: The Guardian
published: 27 August 2014

Sukhdev Reel puts her hand to her chest and pulls her blouse tight around her. “I don’t want to use the word naked, but I just sort of feel …” Across the desk, her daughter Tish watches her carefully. “Stripped of your dignity a bit?” she suggests. Sukhdev nods. “Who was watching me? All I can see is eyes. I can’t get rid of them,” she says, her voice rising to a high, shaky hiccup.

It’s been that way since last month, when the Reel family were summoned to a meeting with Derbyshire police officers working on Operation Herne, the internal inquiry set up to investigate allegations surrounding the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), the now disbanded Scotland Yard undercover unit.

22 July 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Police access to phone records becomes law

source: Telegraph
published: 17 July 2014

Emergency legislation giving the police and security services access to people’s phone and internet records cleared the Lords today will become law.

Peers took just two hours to push through the remaining stages of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill, which was then given Royal Assent from the Queen.

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30 April 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Man died in Druids Heath tower block death plunge as police knocked at door

source: Birmingham Mail
published: 28 April 2014

A man who plunged to his death from a tower block while trying to escape arrest messaged his girlfriend minutes before, telling her: “Feds at the door. I’m spooked.”

After sending the alert, Demetre Fraser was found at the foot of Moor House in Druids Heath. He had plummeted from the 11th floor.

A jury at Birmingham Coroner’s Court found the 21-year-old, originally from the Peckham area of London, fell from the balcony of the flat and later died of multiple injuries at the QE Hospital.

They recorded: “Demetre wanted to avoid arrest and tried to exit the flat using the balcony which resulted in a fall, causing multiple injuries which led to his death.”