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Correction on Derek Benett Inquiry

Claudine Biswas | 06.02.2002 15:32

The officers caught on cctv beating up a black youth during the 20 July demo against the fatal shootin of Derek Benett will be summoned to Bow Magistrates Court on the 20 March

Mr Benett was shot 4 times in the back after brandishing a lighter shaped like a gun on the Angell Town estate.
An independent report into this fatal shooting by police in Brixton is to go to the Crown Prosecution Service before the end of the year, it emerged today.

Claudine Biswas