G20 Massacre

Police attacked an innocent bystander who happened to be around when Rentamob was making a fuss about the G20 conference. In fact it seems they attacked him thrice that day. He died. They lied. Then, whoops, video emerged so they were not going to get away with that story. It meant a different set of lies, a bent medical examiner, allegedly impartial police investigators, a dodgy lawyer in the prosecutor's office and bare faced arrogance in public. NB It seems that Harwood, the thug who attacked Mr. Tomlinson has form. See Policeman who stuck Ian Tomlinson faced two previous aggression inquiries & PC who struck Ian Tomlinson before he died faces 'gross misconduct hearing' as distinct from criminal charges like GBH and manslaughter.

Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions let Harwood get away with killing Mr. Tomlinson. Starmer was given his job by Patricia Scotland, a black criminal. He might allege that this does not prove that he is corrupt.
PS Brown chose to allege that Scotland acted in good faith. The Grauniad is keen on that story - see Brown Stands By Scotland. Scotland claims that she didn't break real law, just the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 [ http://lawbarrister.net/x/2009/09/24/baroness-scotland-not-only-must-justice-be-done/ ]. Of course she is above the law because she is a black whose face fits.

 

G20 Massacre ex Wiki
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After The Guardian published the video, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) began a criminal inquiry from which the police were removed. A second postmortem was ordered by the IPCC and Tomlinson's family, indicating that Tomlinson had died from internal bleeding caused by a blunt force trauma to the abdomen, in association with cirrhosis of the liver. The officer in question, PC Simon Harwood, was interviewed on suspicion of manslaughter. A third postmortem was conducted at the request of his defence team; the third pathologist agreed that the cause of death was internal bleeding. The IPCC completed its investigation in August 2009 and passed its file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which announced in July 2010 that no charges would be brought. The CPS concluded that medical disagreement about the cause of the death meant prosecutors could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a causal link between the death and the alleged assault. The first pathologist, Dr Freddy Patel, has been suspended pending a General Medical Council hearing into allegations of misconduct in several unrelated cases.

The officer seen pushing Tomlinson on The Guardian's video is a constable with the Met's Territorial Support Group (TSG or CO20), a unit of 720 officers who can be identified by the "U" on their shoulder numbers. Known as the "tough guys and girls" of the Met—according to The Job, the force's in-house magazine—they specialize in public-disorder policing, wearing NATO-style helmets, flame-retardant overalls, stab vests, and balaclavas, and carrying batons, pepper spray, and handcuffs. They are authorized to use tasers, and specially trained officers may carry handguns or Heckler & Koch MP5s. The operational commander of the TSG at the time of the incident was Chief Superintendent Mick Johnson.
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This Wikipedia thing was written by the public relations department.

 

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/428241.html  UK Indymedia - Third autopsy into G20 victim Ian Tomlinson's death
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A third autopsy has been held to establish the cause of the death of Ian Tomlinson, the 47-year-old father of nine who collapsed and died after police attacked protesters at the G20 summit of world leaders in London earlier this month.

It comes after a second autopsy, held at the request of his family, found that Tomlinson died of internal bleeding. That finding contradicted the outcome of the original autopsy, which found [ alleged/claimed/stated - delete to taste ] that Tomlinson had died of a heart attack.

Tomlinson, a newspaper vendor, was attempting to make his way home after work, when he was caught in a police “kettling” operation—the forcible detention of protestors behind police cordons for up to seven hours.

It was initially claimed that no physical contact had taken place between the police and Tomlinson before his death. But video footage and photographic stills showed that Tomlinson was brutally assaulted from behind by a masked officer, who had struck him across the legs with his asp—an extending steel baton—causing him to fall and hit his head.

In the last days, more evidence has come to light to indicate that this was only the last of three separate police assaults on Tomlinson before he collapsed and died.

According to a timetable of events leading up to Tomlinson’s death published by the Telegraph, the first encounter occurred shortly after 6pm. Tomlinson, who it is claimed appeared to have been drinking, was smoking a cigarette in the road. When a riot van tried and failed to get past him, eye witness Ross Hardy told the newspaper he saw four riot police drag Tomlinson to the pavement.

Some 30 minutes later Tomlinson—who in the meantime had tried to find his way out of the police trap—became stuck in a cordon on the pedestrianised area by the Royal Exchange buildings. Anna Braithwaite, a 36-year-old freelance photographer, says she saw Tomlinson being pushed to the ground by a police officer.

“It wasn’t just pushing him—he’d rushed him,” she told the Telegraph. “He went to the floor and he did actually roll. That was quite noticeable.

“Ian landed on his left hand side and bounced because of the force of the impact. He looked absolutely terrified.

“The officer hit him twice with a baton when he was lying on the floor. Then the officer picked him up from the back, continued to walk or charge with him, and threw him.”

A “shaken and confused” Tomlinson then tried to find another way out of the cordon, the Telegraph account continued.

“Just after 7.20pm, he was seen being closely followed by a line of police—some in riot helmets and others holding German Shepherds on leads.” Tomlinson was walking along with his hands in his pockets when, “[S]uddenly without warning, an officer in a balaclava and helmet appeared to strike Mr. Tomlinson on the back of the leg with a baton before shoving him to the ground.

“He fell heavily and rolled onto his back, where he was helped by a couple of protesters.”

After a few minutes, he was helped to his feet by a protestor. Soon, however, he “had to start running as police pushed protesters eastwards along the road, where he finally collapsed near St Michael’s Alley at 7.25pm.”
Territorial Support Group

No mention of internal bleeding was made when the results of the first post-mortem, conducted by Dr. Freddy Patel, were published. Patel found that Tomlinson died of a heart attack, but the second post-mortem, carried out by Dr. Nat Cary, states that while “there is evidence of coronary atherosclerosis... its nature and extent is unlikely to have contributed to the cause of death.”

Tomlinson died from an abdominal haemorrhage, Cary’s report found, the cause of which “remains to be ascertained”.

The usual cause of abdominal bleeding is trauma. The second autopsy led to the police officer involved being interviewed under caution on suspicion of manslaughter. The third autopsy is at the police officer’s request. The outcome was not known at the time of writing.

It has transpired that Patel has previously been reprimanded by the General Medical Council. Speaking to reporters about the death of Roger Sylvester, a 30-year old black male who died in police custody, Patel had said that medical records showed “Mr. Sylvester was a user of crack cocaine.” Sylvester’s family protested the suggestion and entered a complaint.

Tomlinson’s son Paul King said, “We believe we were badly misled by police about the possible role they played in Ian’s death. First we were told that there had been no contact with the police, then we were told that he died of a heart attack. Now we know that he was violently assaulted by a police officer and died from internal bleeding. As time goes on we hope that the full truth about how Ian died will be made known.”

Tomlinson’s death is currently under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which has received more than 180 complaints over police behaviour during protests around the G20 summit.

These include complaints of an assault on 35-year-old female protestor Nicola Fisher (See “Britain: More video evidence of police brutality during G20 protests”). Video footage shows Fisher, who was attempting to join a vigil for Tomlinson following his death the previous day, being struck across her face by a heavily-built police officer, using the back of his hand. When she protests, he draws his asp, strikes her across her legs, felling her to the ground.

Both police officers involved in the assault on Tomlinson and Fisher were members of the quasi-paramilitary Territorial Support Group and had concealed their identification numbers.

The Times revealed that the police officer suspended over the assault on Fisher had been reported for an alleged attack on another female the day before. Katie Surridge, a 24-year-old student, said, “One minute I was standing up and the next I was on the floor. I had been pushed to the ground by an officer—I had my back to him and it was totally unprovoked. He didn’t try to justify it at all—initially I was just confused. A group of people shouted at him: ‘You can’t do that to a woman’, but he just walked off.”

In this instance, the officer’s ID was on show and the number recorded by the complainant matches that of the TSG sergeant involved with Fisher.
Journalists assaulted

Organisers of the Climate Camp protest at the G20 on April 1 have handed over a dossier containing hundreds of eye witness statements concerning police brutality to the IPCC. In one incident, caught on video, 24-year-old IT technician Alex Kinnane is struck over the head with a police riot shield.

The National Union of Journalists is also said to be looking into reports of systematic police violence against its members covering the demonstrations.

Video journalist Jason Parkinson told the Sunday Herald, to which he is a regular contributor, that he was repeatedly assaulted during the protests.

Describing the police actions during the G20 protests as involving “probably the most brutal violence I have seen since May Day 2000 (when about 150,000 people marched in London during anti-capitalist demonstrations)”, Parkinson told of “indiscriminate attacks on people doing nothing wrong.”

He had been “hit repeatedly” by police. As he tried to film, police staged a baton charge on protestors.

“I pulled my camera out of reach of their batons and started yelling ‘press’ at them. When they missed the camera that’s when about six or seven blows came down on my head from telescopic batons.” He was concussed for several days as a result.

Parkinson continued, “I saw them punching and kicking journalists. From the very beginning they did nothing but assault the press. Because of the way it has been for the last few years with the Metropolitan Police, everybody who covers these things has a press card clearly visible.”

“I was wearing shin pads because you have to be prepared. I wear a very sturdy helmet. If you are on the front line the first thing they do is start kicking out at you. The baton charge on the press shows how indiscriminate it is.

“The police do not care who you are, you are fair game. It has been worse in the last 18 months to two years.”

Parkinson’s experience was one of several cited by Marc Vallee in the Guardian.

Photographer Terence Bunch told Vallee that he had been “pushed violently from behind and thrown to the floor with some force, and then unable to get up due to a wrist injury while a large police rank ran over me causing more injuries to my left leg. It was only the intervention of another photographer who was already behind this rank coming to my aid that allowed me to get out and on to hospital.”

Photographer David Hoffman had also been assaulted by police for taking a photograph, Vallee wrote. These incidents were all evidence of how the government and police were attempting “to criminalise not only those who protest but also those who dare to give the oxygen of publicity to such dissent.”

This is further underscored by the video footage of a City of London police inspector, surrounded by TSG officers, instructing journalists and camera crew to leave the vicinity or face arrest. [ http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2009/apr/15/g20-protests-police-press]

Citing section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986, the group of 20 were told to go away for 30 minutes to help police “resolve this situation”—a reference to confrontations with protestors. When the order is queried, the officer tells the reporters that unless they comply they will be put in the cells. When they protest again, he tells them to “shut up”.
Julie Hyland
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The third one was for the police trying to get away killing Mr. Tomlinson. Evidently it was their third attack which killed him.

 

Police Killer Claims That He Is Ill [ 12 April 2009 ]
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The policeman suspended over the death of a G20 protester in London has been signed off sick - following a suspected heart attack. The officer, from the Metropolitan Police’s Territorial Support Group (TSG), collapsed at his home after realising he was the person captured on film allegedly pushing newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson to the ground. The policeman is expected to be questioned by the Independent Police Complaints Commission about why his face was covered by a balaclava, concealing his identity. However any interrogation over the incident may now be delayed...... The officer under investigation also appears to have removed his epaulettes with their identifying number. 
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What ever it takes to get away with it is what it will get. If that means every pig in the Met committing perjury it will happen.

 

G20 Murder Update [ 28 July 2010 ]
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The officer struck Tomlinson with a baton and shoved him to the ground shortly before the newspaper seller collapsed and died. The officer's badge numbers were covered and his face concealed beneath a balaclava.

Tomlinson had his hands in his pockets and his back to the officer when he was struck. No police officer went to his aid and it was left to a bystander to lift him to his feet. He stumbled about 100 metres down Cornhill, clutching his side, before collapsing a second time.

Police initially led Tomlinson's wife and nine children to believe he died of a heart attack after being caught up in the protest. In statements to the press, police claimed attempts by officers to save his life by resuscitation were impeded by protesters.
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Concealing his number proves an intention to commit crime. Allowing him to go out that way shows connivance by other police. The fact that they lied to their victim's family ditto and absolutely normal. If there had not been an honest man with a video they would have gotten away with murder easily. In the event they had to try harder. A bent medical examiner is useful. Ditto for a judge that is going to see things their way.

 

Dodgy Medic Changed His Story A Year Later [ 22 August 2010 ]

 

G20 Massacre Update - GMC Says Post Mortem Medic Was Irresponsible [ 25 August 2010 ]
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The pathologist criticised for suggesting that the newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson died of a heart attack during the G20 protest was today ruled to have behaved irresponsibly in a series of other autopsies. The General Medical Council found that Dr Freddy Patel, 63, had failed to spot injury marks on the body of a young child and had altered the cause of a woman's death in order to "satisfy the family". The GMC panel will decide on Dr Patel's fitness to practice in the coming weeks. The GMC findings published today follow doubts raised about his professional conduct in relation to the postmortem examinations of four people. None of the cases related to Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller who died after being struck and shoved to the ground by riot police during the April 2009 protests in the City of London.
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Altering the cause of death is in fact lying. A court might reasonably take the position that he Perverted the course of justice. The police knew the man. The police got the result they wanted. This was after the first attempt to hide the truth failed. Cock up or conspiracy? I will go with conspiracy every time.

 

G20 Massacre - Medic Found Guilty [ 3 September 2010 ]
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The pathologist who carried out the first postmortem on newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, who died at the G20 protests, was today suspended from the medical register for three months. A General Medical Council disciplinary panel previously ruled that Dr Freddy Patel acted in a way that amounted to misconduct in two earlier postmortems, meaning his fitness to practice was impaired. The panel also ruled that Patel had displayed deficient professional performance in a third examination..........

He has already been suspended from the Home Office register of forensic pathologists after questions were asked about the autopsy carried out on the body of 47-year-old Tomlinson, who died in London in April last year..... Patel was also found to be guilty of misconduct in a postmortem on the four-week-old baby in August 2003.
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They knew him. They used him. That is why they used him - or not as the case may be. The important question is conspiracy or cock up. We can depend on them not to give an answer to that one.

 

Coroner Defends Using G20 Massacre Doctor [ 9 September 2010 ]
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The coroner carrying out the inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson today sought to dispel conspiracy theories surrounding his appointment of the controversial pathologist Dr Freddy Patel, claiming his selection was "routine".....

Matthews said Patel "regularly" attended St Pancras mortuary to carry out "routine postmortems". "So I instructed Dr Patel to carry out the routine postmortem on Ian Tomlinson's body, and it was fixed for that afternoon," he added.......... He confirmed he had refused a request from the Independent Police Complaints Commission to have an investigator present during Tomlinson's postmortem because he had seen no material to suggest the newspaper seller had had contact with police prior to his collapse.
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So the coroner admits that he knew the complaints authority were interested then claims it was all routine. Routine corruption is a distinct possibility but routine? I don't think so.

 

Police Thug Attacked G20 Victim With His Bludgeon [ 5 April 2011 ]
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Questioned by the assistant deputy coroner, Judge Peter Thornton QC, Harwood has accepted that the account of events he put in his notebook two weeks after the protests was incorrect. These relate to Harwood's explanation of the aftermath of his attempt to arrest a protester for daubing graffiti, when he said he came under attack from hundreds of protesters and was in fear for his life. Video cast doubt over that, and Thornton specifically went through the list.

Harwood: At the time I wrote this, I thought I fell to the floor.
Thornton: Do you now accept that this is not correct?
Harwood: Yes
Thornton: That you lost your baton – that is not correct?
Harwood: Yes
Thornton: That you received a blow to the head – that is not correct?
Harwood: Yes
Thornton: And that there were violent and dangerous confrontations – that is not correct?
Harwood: Yes.
Thornton: And you were struck by a missile – that is not correct?
Harwood: Yes.

Thornton then asked how Harwood got all this wrong when he wrote the statement on 16 April, more than two weeks after the protests.
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He would have known that he was the killer when he wrote his notes which should have been contemporaneous. Believe a policeman? Never in a month of Sundays.

 

Police Man Lied After G20 Massacre [ 10 May 2011 ]
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A senior Metropolitan police officer has been found to have "recklessly" misled two pathologists over the possible cause of Ian Tomlinson's death at the G20 protests in London. Detective Inspector Eddie Hall was investigated after it emerged he told two forensic experts Tomlinson had fallen to the ground in front of a police van before the newspaper seller later came into contact with PC Simon Harwood.

Hall's description of the fall, which did not happen, was formally relayed to two pathologists charged with finding a cause of 47-year-old Tomlinson's death. The Independent Police Complaints Commission ruled that Hall had been reckless, but accepted that he did not deliberately mislead the pathologists.

The IPCC has opened a fresh inquiry into whether City of London police failed to deal appropriately with information from three other Met police witnesses, who came forward less than 48 hours after the death to say they had seen a colleague push the newspaper vendor to the ground.......

However she said the IPCC's report did not take into account the fact that, just two days after Tomlinson died, three police constables from Hammersmith and Fulham station told seniors they had seen him struck with baton and pushed to the ground.
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Police lie. What's new? Nothing. The fact that three policemen said they saw a pig attacking Mr. Tomlinson is surprising and pleasing. It implies that they are not all corrupt and vicious. Of course the truth was covered up so we are back to normal.

 

Private Eye On Pathological Mire
Pathological mire rhymes with pathological liar. This falls short of calling Patel a crook but the article does say that he is grossly incompetent if not worse. This is in PE 1288/28

 

Journalists On The G20 Front Line
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Media personnel trying to document the police's handling of G20 protesters were attacked and ordered away
At G20 protests, City of London police officers warn the press they will go to jail if they don't move from their location Link to this video

Who needs section 76 when you have a baton? Back in February I wrote how terror legislation had been increasingly used by this government, and brutally enforced by the police, to criminalise not only those who protest but also those who dare to give the oxygen of publicity to such dissent.

In the aftermath of the G20 protests, with the death of a man trying to get home, it is right and proper that the press shine a light beyond the headlines and get to the truth of what took place not only to Ian Tomlinson but also to the hundreds of protesters who now know what a police baton or for that matter the back of a heavy protected police hand feels like.

At the same time it is important to note that many media workers, at some risk, went to work over these two days to document what was taking place. With the wholesale cutting of picture rates and jobs in the media due to the recession, the internet, mismanagement or in my view a mixture of all three, it was no surprise to me that the press were under huge pressure not only to come up with important and stunning pictures and footage but also to make sure this content got sold.

Terence Bunch, a photographer I have known for a number of years, came up with some stunning pictures. In this film, published by the Guardian, you can see a police charge towards a group of photographers, during which one hits the ground very hard – that was Terry. He told me: "I found myself pushed violently from behind and thrown to the floor with some force, and then unable to get up due to a wrist injury while a large police rank ran over me causing more injuries to my left leg. It was only the intervention of another photographer who was already behind this rank coming to my aid that allowed me to get out and on to hospital."

Jason N Parkinson, a journalist I have worked on lots of protests with, who shot the above film footage and gave it to the Guardian, told me he had concussion for three days after being repeatedly batoned across the head by the police. He said that this was despite wearing a professional helmet with press across the front and back. In the incident with Bunch, Parkinson told me he was repeatedly batoned , then a police medic used the end of his baton in a double-handed jabbing motion into his right kidney. Parkinson said this was so hard he collapsed afterwards until he could breathe again.

David Hoffman, who has been documenting dissent on the streets of Britain for more than 30 years, was attacked by the police as well. You can see this for yourself in this excellent film by Ollie Wainwright (Hoffman is the chap with the white hair). The police officer in full riot gear goes for Hoffman – his crime? Taking a picture.

The day after Tomlinson's death we had a City of London police inspector, backup by a group of territorial support group officers, ordering the media to leave the area as police "kettle" protesters who had congregated to mark his death. The police officer ordered 20 members of the media to leave the area for 30 minutes under the threat of arrest by citing section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 (pdf).

This film, also published by the Guardian, shows the journalists (including me) having a "conversation" with the inspector. At one point he tells me to "shut up" when I question him about his actions. You have to ask yourself why section 14 was used against a group of working journalists. Why did the police want the journalists to be moved away from the protest for 30 minutes and 200 yards up the road? And why all of this was done under the threat of arrest?

Also, you have to ask why so many media workers ended up in hospital. The only thing I can think of is, fewer cameras equals fewer independent witnesses.
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The Met are vicious criminals. They always were but the current regime is not reining them in; it likes it that way.

 

UK Terror Laws Being Misused To Obstruct Journalists, MPs Told
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London, (IRNA): Anti-terror legislation is making it increasingly difficult for journalists to cover protests and demonstrations, the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Jeremy Dear has warned. "Misuse of powers is preventing journalists from carrying out legitimate activity," Dear said in giving evidence Tuesday to the Home Affairs Committee, inquiring into the policing of last month’s G20 protests in London. He accused the police of using discretionary powers such as 'stop and search' disproportionately and also criticized the misuse of section 14 of the Public Order Act to order photographers to clear an area of the G20 protest.
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Real power is the power to abuse power.

 

Police Must Be Better Trained On The Rights Of The Press
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Officers dealing with protests or demonstrations should be better briefed on the rights and regulations of the press, the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has said.

Speaking at a Home Affairs Select Committee earlier this week, Jeremy Dear said that too few officers are aware of the guidelines set up regarding the rights of the press at public order events such as G20 and that few recognised, or were prepared to recognise, the press card and what it means.

While guidelines were established between the NUJ, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Metropolitan Police Service ahead of the protests at G20, Mr. Dear said there was a “huge misunderstanding” in the way the guidelines were followed and said part of this was down to lack of training and briefing.

He called for “significant improvements” in the briefing of officers ahead of public order events such as G20 saying that all press, including freelancers, should be invited to such briefings. He did concede, however, that there may be security issues surrounding the publication of such briefing details on the Internet.

The media and police have a “common interest”, he said, and it is important for them to maintain a “good working relationship”..... The NUJ will be submitting a dossier of complaints from 13 journalists to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) this week. While Mr. Dear said this appeared to be a high level of complaints, it was to be expected as the presence of press at the event was high.
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Heigh ho.


 

Harwood Might Be Sacked To Beat Disciplinary Charges - Corruption As Normal - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/03/ian-tomlinson-g20-officer-inquest [ 3 October 2010 ]

 

Police Apologize For Hiring Vicious Thug But Not For Helping Him Get Away With Murder [ 20 July 2012 ]
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Simon Harwood cleared of killing Ian Tomlinson, but questions remain
Scotland Yard admits to mistakes over acquitted officer as chequered disciplinary record emerges

Scotland Yard has apologised for re-employing a riot policeman with a chequered disciplinary record after he was acquitted of killing Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in London in 2009. The jury at Southwark crown court, who took four days to clear PC Simon Harwood of manslaughter on a majority verdict, was not told that the officer had been investigated a number of other times for alleged violence and misconduct [ or how he got away with them - Editor ].

Harwood quit the Metropolitan police on health grounds in 2001, shortly before a planned disciplinary hearing into claims that while off-duty he illegally tried to arrest a man in a road rage incident, altering notes retrospectively to justify his actions.

He was nonetheless able to join another force, Surrey, returning to the Met in 2005. In a string of other alleged incidents Harwood was accused of having punched, throttled, kneed or threatened other suspects while in uniform, although only one complaint was upheld.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission described the chain of events around Harwood's rejoining his old force before becoming part of its elite Territorial Support Group as "simply staggering".......

Tomlinson's family said they would now take civil action against the Met, while the force said that it would hold Harwood to account in a public disciplinary hearing.

The Met's deputy assistant commissioner, Maxine de Brunner [ who keeps on getting promoted after 'misleading' Prince Charles - Editor ], conceded that Harwood should never have been allowed to re-join the force........

British juries are notoriously reluctant to convict police for serious alleged crimes carried out on duty. No police officer has been found guilty of manslaughter in 25 years, despite hundreds of cases in which families have alleged wrongdoing.
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Mr. Tomlinson was attacked by police criminals thrice that day but still they got away with it. Lying to the family was their first attempt to pervert the course of justice. Using a dodgy medic? Accidental? Believe it if you want. Their real problem was the video. That is why they attack anyone with a camera when they are indulging their taste for brutality. They will do what ever it takes to get away with crime. Buying victims off is just a cost of doing business. It is only taxpayers' money so they don't care about that. The Daily Mail comes nearer to an honest headline than the Grauniad with
Freed, the 'thug in police uniform' - What jury WEREN'T told about the PC cleared of G20 killing of Ian Tomlinson
More on this at the G20 Massacre.
PS If they try it on with you say NOTHING - Resistance to Interrogation explains how and why - then go straight to a doctor with your bruises. It is better to bring criminal proceedings first. Then the pay off will be bigger.

 

Police Tried To Hide G20 Massacre Perpetrator's Record [ 21 July 2012 ]
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The Metropolitan police attempted to keep the disciplinary record of PC Simon Harwood secret from the family of Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller he struck with a baton and pushed to the ground at G20 protests, it can now be reported.

Lawyers for the force tried and failed to argue that disclosing the litany of complaints about Harwood's conduct would have breached his privacy, saying the officer's disciplinary history did not have "any relevance" to Tomlinson's death.

Harwood, 45, who was found not guilty of Tomlinson's manslaughter on Thursday, had repeatedly been accused of using excessive force during his career, including claims he punched, throttled, kneed and unlawfully arrested people........

The inquest jury – which concluded last year that Tomlinson was "unlawfully killed" by the police officer – was also prevented from hearing the details of the complaints........

Eventually, the Met was instructed to share the files with interested parties. When lawyers from Tomlinson's family were able to inspect the disciplinary records – which filled five lever-arch folders – they discovered detailed complaints containing several allegations of physical assaults.
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The police will do what ever it takes to get away with crime although they tend not to murder witnesses. That is normally to obvious a try on. Perjury  is merely where it begins.

 

G20 Massacre Pathologist Guilty Of Misconduct [ 21 August 2012 ]  
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Dr Freddy Patel, who investigated death of newspaper seller in G20 protests, showed dishonesty and deficient performance Dr Freddy Patel acted with "deficient professional performance" over his postmortem investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests, a medical tribunal has concluded. The pathologist's fitness to practice is "impaired by reason of misconduct", the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said..........

He also breached one of the "fundamental tenets of the profession" through his dishonesty, the panel said. The pathologist, who is currently suspended, concluded [ alleged/claimed ] that the newspaper seller Tomlinson died from a heart attack but questions were raised when an American tourist came forward with a film recording of him being hit [ attacked/assaulted/bludgeoned/beaten ].
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Presumably the police would claim that Patel was not used because he was crooked or that they made systematic efforts to pervert the course of justice. Have they sacked the perpetrator? Not a chance; he is their kind of thug. 

 

Met Police Had Concerns Over Patel In 2004 [ 24 August 2012 ]
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The Metropolitan police raised concerns in 2004 with the Home Office about the standards of pathologist Freddy Patel, five years before the botched Ian Tomlinson's postmortem that led to his professional downfall and findings of misconduct and dishonesty on Tuesday............

Of the seven cases dating back to 2002, for which Patel has been investigated, professional failings have been found in five, including his investigation into the death of Tomlinson, who died after being struck during a G20 protest in April 2009.

The GMC has asked the independent panel hearing the Tomlinson case and reviewing others to strike Patel off the medical register, the passport to all work for doctors.

The GMC is understood to have been conducting its own investigation into the case of Sally White, the first victim of the Camden Ripper, Anthony Hardy. Patel said she died of natural causes, thus delaying a murder investigation that might have prevented two further deaths. It is understood that this was not one of the four cases first complained of by the Met........ The NPIA revealed that Patel had lied about his status and deliberately concealed that he was not part of a group practice of pathologists, which was a requirement to remain on the Home Office register after 2006.
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The Met knew that Patel was a crooked Pakistani but they didn't say anything when he gave them the result they wanted after  perpetrating the G20 Massacre; the lies that kept their thug out of prison.

 

G20 Massacre Pathologist Banned
Is it just a coincidence that Patel is a Pakistani? I doubt it.

 

G20 Killer Sacked Allegedly [ 18 September 2012 ]
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Ian Tomlinson case: PC Simon Harwood sacked for gross misconduct
Officer's actions at G20 protest discredited police service and undermined public confidence, rules disciplinary panel
The Metropolitan policeman who struck and pushed Ian Tomlinson as he walked away from riot officers on the fringe of the G20 protests in London has been sacked with immediate effect after a disciplinary hearing found he had committed gross misconduct.

It was "inconceivable" that Simon Harwood, who was cleared of Tomlinson's manslaughter in July following one of the most high-profile cases of police misconduct in recent years, could ever work as a police officer again, the three-strong panel ruled. Commander Julian Bennett, who chaired the panel, said: "PC Harwood's use of force in this case cannot be justified. His actions have discredited the police service and undermined public confidence in it.....

Harwood, whose long and at times murky prior disciplinary record was not disclosed at his trial, would be sacked with immediate effect, Bennett said. However, he will keep his pension entitlement as he has not been convicted of a crime........

Harwood was nonetheless able to join another force, Surrey, before returning to serve with the Met in 2005. He also allegedly punched, throttled, kneed or threatened other suspects while in uniform in other incidents. Most of the complaints were [ alleged to have been ] unproven.

It is only the second time the Independent Police Complaints Commission has instructed police to hold a disciplinary hearing in public following a law passed in 2008.

The only other public hearing concerned officers accused of failing in their duty when they did not respond to repeated calls from Colette Lynch, a young woman in Rugby, Warwickshire, about threats from her ex-partner. He stabbed her to death days later
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The pigs say Harwood's attack cannot be justified? Why did they lie to the family, use a bent medical examiner and do everything else to keep him out of prison? In order to pervert the course of justice. Harwood will get a job with the police as a driving instructor or whatever. It is SOP [ Standard Operating Procedure ].

 

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