Ian Tomlinson death: police officer will not face criminal charges
no Justice, no Peace | 22.07.2010 10:34 | G20 London Summit | Repression | Social Struggles
The Crown Prosecution Service has announced this morning that the police officer who was caught on video striking Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests last year who later died will not face criminal charges,
How about a demo at the CPS this afternoon, say from 4pm onwards anyone?
CPS London address is: 22 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9BT
How about a demo at the CPS this afternoon, say from 4pm onwards anyone?
CPS London address is: 22 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9BT
no Justice, no Peace
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Getting away with murder
22.07.2010 10:51
sad'n'angry
blank cheque
22.07.2010 10:57
Im sure it wouldn't take too much effort to find court cases where medical evidence is in disagreement, and yet the CPS started a case. And why no charges of assult and ABH.
However, did we really expect any justice.
Hopefully the MET will pay dearly for this, and not just via a civil case brought by the family.
Scum MET, Scum CPS.
sam
How they deal with this sort of thing in France
22.07.2010 11:06
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/07/2010717154841133160.html
wishful thinker
The Tomlinson family have called for a demo @1pm Scotland Yard
22.07.2010 11:28
No one seems to have noticed today is also 5 years to the day that the police murdered Jean Charles De Menezes.
ACAB.
ACAB
Legalising offences
22.07.2010 13:08
If a member of the public causes death then that person is taken into custody, interviewed, charges are considered and if enough evidence exists, the person is bailed and a file sent to the CPS. If the charges are reasonable, then the CPS prepares a case and the matter is put before the court for open trail. If the court finds the charges reasonable then it proceeds and the process ends with a verdict of the court (judge or jury) and incarceration or acquittal of the accused. The post-mortem of the deceased is simply a matter of evidence for the court.
What part of this process does the police service not have any confidence in?
The post-mortem has clearly been removed from what should, by established process, have been a matter for open trial and the defence and prosecution arguments.
Technical problems have clearly been fabricated to protect the officer and the Police Service and the ordinary process that should have taken place has not.
Big black mark for the Met. You are clearly as bent as the criminals you chase.
J
As expected.
22.07.2010 13:41
Not the Police and their chronies to argue behind closed doors.
There needs to be an immediate halt to this, suspension of those involved and an immediate public inquiry into the IPCC, DPP and the Metropolitan Police Service.
Clearly, the police have no confidence in the Judiciary.
PC fuck you.
BBC News 24 Name Copper who topped Ian
22.07.2010 14:08
Thats 00Harwood, Licensed to Kill.
Licensed to kill
Process as offender.
22.07.2010 14:31
If you are the police and you are reading this.
NOT A SNOWBALLS CHANCE IN HELL!
J
All part of the service, Sir.
22.07.2010 15:08
I would imagine that even that has been planned for. Two birds with one stone and all that. Why give the media a chance to run two hostile stories over a few days when you can wrap it all up into a single 'event'. Makes things easier to manage by the under-staffed police PR dept.
Its all part of the police 'initiative' culture that exists these days. Somebody in the police is getting on in the world from this. They'll appear as a Chief Constable in a few years time and expect the public to have confidence in them.
Little will we know!
Stevie
Getting away with murder...
22.07.2010 16:58
Once in uniform you will be given carte blanche to kill who you want when you want and nobody will press charges.
Bastards.
IHTF
Thoughts with his family
22.07.2010 19:31
To shed some light on how police officers are treated when I was attacked in 2000 what happened was that the police officer was arrested and his home raided that night mainly because lots of people had witnessed the assault who were regarded as "respectable" i.e a senior nurse, a squadron leader etc. I was interviewed a couple of days later by detectives in my hospital bed and there was a bearly suppressed groan when I said I wanted to press charges. My assailant was released without charge and some damage limitation was on TV stating that a PC had been arrested for attacking a woman implying this was a domestic! The activist with me at the scene was remanded in custody.
What happened next was interesting I was waiting for another operation a week later remaining very ill when 2 detectives came to my bed and sort of charged me with conspiracy to endanger public safety, I was still pretty out of it but my statement concerning the assault was being used against me. Another week passed and the day before my discharge from hospital several homes of my freinds were raided as well as my house and 4 people arrested and remanded in custody. They were released a week later.
In sharp contrast the police officer was not charged for 10 months and was on unconditional bail, I was told that this was because the then PCA (Police Complaints Authority) had to be satisfied that the assault was investigated properly. He was then charged with GBH. My charges were dropped to obstruction of the highway something to do with the CPS avoiding bad publicity.
At trial the defence were allowed to run with the fiction that this police officer had fled the scene as he was scared of animal rights activists because of the attack on Brian Cass which is odd considering that Cass was attacked 6 months later!!!!
He was acquitted.
Now this is where it gets really interesting especially for the relatives of Ian Tomlinson, it will not bring Ian back but may help get some closure after all other legal recourse has been exhausted. I sued the police officer personally and successfully and he was none too amused it did not cover the costs of my injuries over a lifetime but it helped to balance the scales a little. No doubt the Met' are going to have to cough up considerably for this but the officers responsible can be made uncomfortable and made an example of in ways that are legal and low risk. Hope that the demo goes well.
RIP Ian.
Lynn Sawyer
Police allowed to get away with murder again
23.07.2010 03:03
I know from personal experience how corrupt and rotten the system is and I have experienced police brutality at first hand. One other person has drawn attention to the way this has been dealt with in France and rightly so - anger needs to be translated into action not a lot of talk and hot air
George Coombs
On the Square.
23.07.2010 09:15
Look to the Lodges.
Rhiannon
Look where you need to.
23.07.2010 12:35
Lets not bother with nonsense the public are unlikely to care about or understand.
Lets stick to the matter at hand.
Systemic corruption, conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to harbour a suspected criminal, aiding and abetting, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, perverting the course of justice, dereliction of duties, abandonment of duty, unlawful death, manslaughter, failure to report, failure to process, conspiracy to obstruct justice. Of course there are a lot more but lets stick to whats obvious.
Lets not allow ourselves to become 'distracted' by obvious nonsense. The police are guilty as sin and have actively undermined the course of justice.
They must be forced before the courts to answer for serious offence's. They wont like it of course, and will do their best to show us all the natural contempt they hold for us. This is natural though. Its what they do, its why they killed Ian Tomlinson.
They just don't care about getting caught because they know the have enough friends to count on. We have to take those friends away from them. And when we have done that, we have to drag them by their scrawny little flea-bitten necks kicking and screaming into the courts.
T
error
23.07.2010 16:49
In all Post mortems it clearly showed both congenital heart disease and cronic tissue damage due to prolonged consumtion of alcohol as he was an alcoholic.
Please check available post details for confirmation.
Getting kind of sick of people lieing for thier person opinion to be believed, accuse others of hypocrasy and then spend several paragraphs spouting opinion biased innacuracies as if they were fact.
Think: If a perfectly healthy person can be killed by pushing them, then the fucking army woud have long sticks not guns!
anon
@error = wrong
23.07.2010 17:39
Yes. What has that got to do with anything? It also said in the 2nd and 3rd post mortems that it was internal bleeding, caused by blunt force trauma to the abdomen.
>> Think: If a perfectly healthy person can be killed by pushing them, then the fucking army woud have long sticks not guns!
Surprisingly, it does happy with quite frequent regularity. The the sad thing about internal bleeding.
People have died from internal bleeding on a football / rugby picture, skiing / boarding, boxing and plain just falling off a bike or walking in a street. The same for falling down stairs or in the garden.
And putting 2+2 together. Ian walked less than 100m away after the incident and then died.
It would have to be a huge coincidence that his alcohol abuse had killed him just a few minutes after being assaulted. The odds of that would be astronomical. Coupled with the fact the the 2 pathologists said that internal bleeding from the blunt force trauma caused the death.
>> The Police in the UK are all a load of bent, corrupt Freemasons. They have their Brothers in the government, legal profession and courts to assist them escape justice. Look to the Lodges.
Sorry, but i'm a freemason and that is a load of bollox. Most of public have no idea what the freemasons are about apart from what they've read in a Dan Brown book.
cock
Its all about this (raises single finger)
23.07.2010 19:37
Next up, Ian was suicidal and he wanted to die!
Do one.
Jack Palance
Terror on the streets
24.07.2010 20:57
Meritocracy my bum. Well done for taking my voice away.
Congenital Heart Condition
What happens when a policeman's not the suspect
26.07.2010 04:52
So according to the CPS, if you push someone to the ground and shortly after they die of a long-standing health condition, which neither the assailant or the victim knew existed, the only "sensible conclusion" is that the death was a result of the confrontation, therefore is manslaughter.
Except if they're not sure whether it was a heart attack or internal bleeding that the victim died from minutes after the "confrontation", in which case it would be quite impossible for a jury to conclude that the two are in any way connected. Oh yeah, and if the assailant is a copper
PS. I can't help thinking the CPS announced their decision on the anniversary of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezez deliberately, to basically say "Fuck you, see this isn't a one off, we can let the police kill whoever they want with impunity whenever we like, what are you going to do about it you plebs?".
So, what are we going to do about it?
doveman