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Met Police version of Mr Tomlinson's death

Mikey | 07.04.2009 21:48

Abstract and link to Met Police version of events

The following is taken from:

 http://cms.met.police.uk/news/updates/operation_glencoe_policing_and_security_for_the_g20_london_summit

It is from the Met Police's website where much of the media obediently take their copy from and bring it to us, the people, as truth. This is the paragraph they give concerning the death of Mr Tomlinson's death:

Latest at 23:30hrs, 2nd April 2009

A member of the public went to a police officer on a cordon in Birchin Lane, junction with Cornhill to say that there was a man who had collapsed round the corner.

That officer sent two police medics through the cordon line and into St Michaels Alley where they found a man who had stopped breathing. They called for LAS support at about 1930. The officers gave him an initial check and cleared his airway before moving him back behind the cordon line to a clear area outside the Royal Exchange Building where they gave him CPR.

The officers took the decision to move him as during this time a number of missiles - believed to be bottles - were being thrown at them.

LAS took the man to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The Directorate of Professional Standards at both the MPS and City of London Police have been informed. The IPCC has been informed.

Mikey