street called Beechcroft Avenue.
'As we were walking along this road the police charged from first. charge policemen on foot with shields and truncheons. The secharge HANU Transit vans moving very fast through the demonstrators, followed by policemen on foot with shields and truncheons:
"Blair received his fatal injury when SPG men from the Transit vans got out at the corner of Orchard and Beecherott Avenues and started attacking demonstrators who were only trying to go home? *... the worst of all crimes is the furtherance of political or industrial aims by riot The coroner has a great deal of power in an inquest. police The lawyers are not allowed to sum up but the coroner is. 'Juries at a coroners' court are selected by the Coroners Officer, who doesn't have to be, but usually is a police officer, seconded from the local police force.' The jury in Blair Peach's inquest did not come from the Southall area. white. The coroner had access to information that was not available to Blair's lawyers. 'Both the police and the coroner had access to the Cass report, which took the police pile. jury prevented from Burton, Haute report. 'Had we known who the people mentioned in the WCIC might have decided to ask the coroner to call them. Instead, They were all unless we third party that someone had evident to Cass, we had no way of using their evidence.
LIn one case, where we did find out that someone had also suaded the coroner was seeing this saying how Dr Johr reading responsibility lawyers LICI knew through justified.
implications given evident to Cass, we perto cal them and they gave evidence, they had been assaulted by policemen who had hit them on the head.' Burton's summary made in the no bones about the police's for Blair Peach's death. But he steered the police. the jury towards concluding 'Most of his summing up was devoted to explaining the of a "death by misadyenture' verdict, paying only little attention to an open verdict and unlawful killing.
implied police's evidence at the inquest did not point towards a riot having occurred *Except in two cases, the police insisted that they had hit no one and they all agreed that they had seen no other policeman hit anybody.' Despite the outcome of the inquest, which clearly has not got to the bottom of the police's role killing of Blair Peach, Amanda believes that the verdict will not have completely satisfied The jury added two riders to its death by misadventure verdict. First that there should be more liaison between the dinary policy and the Special Patrol Group and that they should be more under the control of their officers. Secondly that no unlawful weapons should be kept in police stations.
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