Campaigners condemn UK police custody deaths
Activists condemn UK police custody deaths at the UFFC march in London on October 27, 2012.
Tue Oct 30, 2012 1:52AM
Hundreds of families and friends of the victims that are believed to have been murdered under the British police custody stage a demonstration in central London, demanding justice for their loved ones.
About 500 people joined the annual march of the United Friends and Family Campaign (UFFC) in London on Saturday 27 October, calling for greater levels of accountability for police officers responsible for custody deaths in Britain.
Protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square and then marched to the Downing Street while chanting "no justice, no peace” and carrying a coffin whose surface was covered with names of those who died at the hands of the police, in jails or in psychiatric hospitals.
Activists also stopped outside Number 10, where they gave speeches and handed in a letter for the British Prime Minister David Cameron, demanding urgent reforms in the judicial system.
Carole Duggan, aunt of Mark, a black man whose death at the hands of the British police sparked last summer’s unrest across Britain, said, "Our children are still being persecuted and murdered in cold blood by police officers. They are serial killers in uniforms.”
Moreover, Samantha Rigg, sister of Sean Rigg, carried a newspaper page on the inquest verdict on her brother’ death at the front of the fourteenth UFFC rally against deaths under police protection.
Last month, an inquest jury ruled that the British police have used “unsuitable” force which led to the death of Sean Rigg, a mentally ill man who died of cardiac arrest after being held in the back of a police van at Brixton police station in south London on August 21, 2008.
Over 3,000 people are estimated to have died in suspicious circumstances in custody since 1969 in the UK. Original article here...
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