The death of Ian Tomlinson, tonight has caused fresh concern over the honesty of our justice system, widely reported at the time, when film evidence showed Mr Tomlinson being battered from behind by a police officer, in an operation by the Metropolitan Police to control G20 protests.
At the time the public were astonished that, in London it was possible for a police officer, to attack a member of the public on their way home from work in what appeared at least to me and I suspect many, a cowardly and unexplained manner.
Well over a year later we hear from the Director of Public Prosecutions that no prosecutions will be forthcoming. The reason one pathologist who is accused of misconduct thought that Mr Tomlinson died of natural causes although it's understood he was unaware, that he'd been attacked by a police officer. A second pathologist not accused of misconduct, had agreed that he had died of internal bleeding as a result of blunt force trauma, furthermore a third pathologist working for the copper involved agreed with the second.
Its my view that the suggestion that our judicial, legal system and police force are trustworthy or honest could not be proved and is beyond reasonable doubt.
Shame on the Crown Prosecution service and Metropolitan police force for refusing to prosecute this case, and adding further hurt to Ian Tomlinson's family. I feel that both the Crown prosecution service and Metropolitan police would not be out of place in some third world country.
What a bloody scandal, its time the police and police authorities, understood their purpose is to serve the public, here in Kent we've had the spectacle of Kent police acting illegally over the climate protest and so far nobody has apologised to the public of Kent.
Yes the murdering plod thugs get away with it again. Time to sack that NuLabour police-statist Keir Starmer & LET THE JURY DECIDE the murdering plod is guilty.
ReplyDeleteDon't upset metropolitan police as they have a licence to kill
ReplyDeleteThe trouble is people still think the Police are there to serve the public (which is what they should be doing) but theyre not. They are there to collect revenue for all matter of infringements of statute law and to make sure that no one steps out of line.
ReplyDeletePretty obvious now that two of the officers charged with brutalising the public have got away with it.(Sgnt Smellie being the other for the use of a baton on a womans legs) - Dont trust the po-lice. They wont help you - ever
This announcement has served as a big reminder that when it suits the police Law and Order are simply suspended.
ReplyDeleteShame on the Met and bigger shame on the Crown Prosecution Service.
I have no doubt most coppers are honest and decent people but when push comes to shove and someone dies from internal injuries well
An inquiry has all the evidence and reaches one conclusion but those privy only to the sensation seeking media version reach another.
ReplyDeleteSociety gets both the governance and the police it deserves. If all society can do is knock their administrators and law enforcers then a hostile relationship is inevitable.
Real easy to sit back and blame but not so to face the mob and make split second decisions.
A completely 'planned' cover-up by the CPS into the death of Ian
ReplyDeleteTomlinson. Delaying tactics rendered even a charge of assault void as the 6 month time limit for an assault prosecution had
expired.
Let's see what the (so called) 'Independent' Police Complaints Commission comes up with next.
Our hearts and support are with Ian's family.
'No Justice - No Peace'.
Death of Ian Tomlinson 1 year on - Bill Maloney Reports
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Award winning film director Bill Maloney and his courageous camera woman Lilly Starr join the grieving family of Ian Tomlinson to pay their respects on the anniversary of his death. Ian Tomlinson was innocently making his way home from work through the G20 protests in London on 1 April 2009.
As one who remembers the 'George Davies is Innocent' campaign, and what a joke that turned out to be, I take all these anti-plod, anti-CPS, anti-IPCC with a pinch of salt. Some people will only be happy when every villain, terrorist or scoundrel is out, the police are disbanded and there is total anarchy.
ReplyDeleteHow many people walk home from work through a riot?
An ideal society, under small local government, would largely police itself.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately the parasites that have ruled this country and now rule the entire world have created a society so alien to our species that they must now put on such high profile displays of tyranny, as described here, to quell any ideas of a popular uprising.
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ReplyDelete"An inquiry has all the evidence and reaches one conclusion but those privy only to the sensation seeking media version reach another.
Society gets both the governance and the police it deserves. If all society can do is knock their administrators and law enforcers then a hostile relationship is inevitable.
Real easy to sit back and blame but not so to face the mob and make split second decisions.
Sat Jul 24, 10:48:00 AM"
INCORRECT AT LAW Anon
HM Coroner is under a duty to determine true circumstances of death WHILST ALLAYING PUBLIC SUSPICION.
The public seem to be indicating that their suspicions are not allayed.
It is not about law, Retired, for laws can be changed. It is about the kind of society we want, peaceful co-existence or disorder.
ReplyDeletePolicing should be of the community by the community and with the full consent and support of the community.
Sadly, these days, we seem to have replaced the local bobby with some vertically challenged graduate from elsewhere carrying a list of targets. My point is that it is not the fault of the police, who I am sure would prefer to be George Dixons, but the society through its governance that has created the present situation.
We should be campaigning to get the policing we once had, that was the envy of the world, rather than perpetually knocking in a negative way as you do.