Inquests, Inquiries or Injustice

Inquests, Inquiries or Injustice

inquiry

inquiry is simply a process if inquiring information by asking questions to the members in and related to police force or public service in question. It is a legal investigation conducted by a judge and those involved are represented by barristers and legal teams. Information request are made to bodies and those involved are asked to attend court to give witness under oath however they are told by the judge not to say any thing which will incriminate them. They can not be found guilty or innocent.

inquest

inquest is a formal independent investigation carried out by a coroner where sometimes a jury is used. An Inquest can only find out how, where, and why a person or people died not who is guilty or innocent.

At best a death by the hands of the police can be called lawful or unlawful even though if found unlawful in breach of criminal law it dose not mean that any police officer will face charges because it is then up to the CPS to decide weather or not that there is significance evidence to press charges which in the case of 50 years not a single police officer who has killed a member of the public while being on duty has ever been charged, convicted then jailed.

Some are made public to observe and some are made secret depending on how much they want to hide from the public.

Criminal Court Case

Criminal Court Case is where a person and persons are charged with murder and the like and the out come judged by a jury if found guilty would likely face jail time and charged with criminal offences. During this process just like an Inquiry and an Inquest information is requested by the defence the prosecutor even the Jury or the Judge.

Member Killer a Police Officer

So.....whats the point in an Inquest and Inquiry? It protects the criminals and makes sure no police officer ever faces jail time. When a police officer is killed by a member of the public MOST cases it accidental but anyways... the member of the public is arrested as soon as possible and instantly remanded until a criminal court case, you are can be remanded between 50- 182 days and then must be bailed. In most cases if not all case by the time you are arrested and charged you will have a trial within 12 months more then likely under 6 months.

Obviously the member of the public in this case benefits from delaying the case as much possible in order to have to time to get together a defence, sort out co defendants stories, deal with witnesses, gather information and hope that information that would incriminates them gets losed, misplaced, destroyed or stolen. Delay tactics should always be used unless you know the police do not have a solid case and you want to get in and get out before they find out any other information that would criminate you.

The benefits to a criminal court case is that there is a verdict of Guilty or Innocent, there is accountability and punishment is given accordingly, this is not the case of a Inquest or Inquiry.

Police Kill Police

When the cases of “friendly fire” a term the military use since the police think they are G.I joes on the high streets of Baghdad....i mean Liverpool One shopping centre. Anyways when a police officer kills another police officer such as in the case of PC Ian Terry from GMP who was shot dead in vehicle in a training exercise they did not have a Public Inquiry had a coroner inquest jury at Manchester coroner's courts where it was found that PC Ian Terry was unlawfully killed. Coroners Inquest is simply a process to find out the course of death not who was guilty or innocent

There was no criminal charges put against the police officer “Chris” who shot dead PC Ian Terry but instead face an internal hearing by GMP and was found guilty of gross misconduct.....NOT murder and was still allowed to be on the force. The CPS refused to charge the police officer after he shot dead Ian Terry. GMP admitted breaching health and safety laws over the shooting and the officer in charge of the drill referred to as "Francis" was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay costs of £500 at Manchester Crown Court. None of these fines actually come out of the police officers pocket, it comes from their insurance, the force or the Police Federation. GMP was fined £166,666 and ordered to pay costs of £90,000 which basically means they just ask for more funding off the government meaning that the police force is not punished in the slightly its the tax paper being forced to pay the bill . A third officer did not face the gross misconduct hearing as he had retired which is a common tactic, in any other profession you would face charges even after you retired. In fact in other professions you would not be allowed to retire while an investigation is on going.

Police kill member of the public

When the police kill member of the public they are not arrested or charged but instead they are wrapped in in cotton wool by the Force, the Police Federation, Police Firearms Officers Association and mummy cuddled by the IOPC. In most case they are not even suspended while an investigation is ongoing and if they are its basically a paid holiday. An internal investigation is carried out part of a hearing and the IOPC will carry out their own investigation but will delay any result if there is a chance of on Inquiry or Inquest and they will not present their result until after the Inquiry or Inquest to make sure not to “prejudice” the Inquiry/Inquest result.

To get an Inquest/inquiry takes years and for the process to end takes even more years. In the case of Anthony Grainger he was shot dead on the 3rd of March 2012 by a GMP police officer known as Q9 . The Inquiry did not start until the 26th of July 2016 and as I write this 20th February 2019 we still have not had a verdict, thats 7 years of torture for the families involved. It can take years to get a public inquest and inquiry and they will take years to complete especially when you include IOPCC investigations running along side them, with time passing by it means evidence can be lost and destroyed like what we learned from the Anthony Grainger Public Inquiry where Police notebooks where misplaced, thrown in the trash and set on fire. Witnesses can become hard to find and over time their memories can change and details within their statements can become confusing and the guilty when they take the stand in court can claim they can not remember or recall events due to memory loss avoiding having to admit to events and actions, this happened a lot in the Anthony Grainger Inquiry by Police Officers. Public Servants retire and can avoid persecution and some die before they enter a court room.

When Anthony got shot it was alleged by GMP that Anthony was part of a Organised Crime Group which was about to carry out a armed robbery in Culcheth, after he was shot and killed the rest of the Organised Crime Group who where located in the car which Anthony was killed in faced a Criminal Court Case within Months, they had a trial and within in minutes where found not guilty of carrying out an armed robbery. But the killer Q9 didn't face any charges and hasn't since in relation to the killing of Anthony, he wasn't even questioned or interviewed. He was given six day rest to write his statement, after he was put in a room with all of the other 16 police officers involved in the killing and was given a flip chart board with “facts” written up by the police legal team to help them not to incriminate themselves. He was only questioned at the Inquiry in 2018. In those 7 years they had time to destroy evidence, tamper with evidence and of course retire to make sure they didnt loose their pension which was the case on Anthony Grainger case.

At the Anthony Grainger Inquiry the Acting Chief Constable Heywood gave evidence in March 2018 and as a result of the evidence he gave the IOPC undertook an independent investigation into the allegation that, in order ti misrepresent the intelligence picture the officer was presented with when taking his decision to issue the Firearms Authority, he made false or misleading entries in his log by recording information that was not available to him at the time of the events. He did this to conceal what he had done, he failed to disclose his original log to the IOPC investigators during their investigation into Anthonys death, this was clearly a case of perverting the course of public justice, misconduct in public office, perjury and offenses contrary to Section 35 Inquiries Act 2005.........CPS in February 2019 chose not to press charges it didnt matter anyway because he retired in October 2018 but could still face a police hearing which would mean if he was found guilty of misconduct he wouldn't be allowed back into the force but with a big pension like his why would you need to work.

This is the problem with Inquiries they take so long to get through and become a cash cow for those professionals involved in the process and of course its in their interest to make it as long as possible for financial rewards. Its the case of Deny, Delay and hope you die especially in the case of Hillsborough disaster where 30 years on and not a single police officer has been jailed. For over 50 years with are the inquests, inquiry and hearings with hundreds dead by the hands of police officers not a single police officer on duty at the time of the killing has spent a day in jail. One or 2 have been charged of the 50 years but not convicted.

PC Balvinder Singh killed a member of the public by running them over in a vehicle in December 2016 and was sentence to 18 moths in jail on November the 10th 2018 so that just over a year. If he was on duty he would never have been arrested or charged and would still be working up to the date of the Inquiry about 5-7 years later where he would not have faced any criminal charges and likely hood would have retired and still kept not only his pension but his driving licence.

Police inspector Darren McKie killed his wife who was also a police officer in September 2017 and was found guilty in March 2018 with only a 4 week trial and jailed for life with parol in 19 years.

So as you can see “justice” is only served when a police officer is off duty whereby they are taken to a Criminal Court and prosecuted in most cases within a year, an Inquiry takes about 7 years and is simply a whitewash with no charges or convictions. I can see no logical reason for Inquires or Inquests to take place, those officers involved in murder to should be arrested charged, remanded and face criminal charges like the rest of us. The trials may be longer then normal maybe even lasting a year or 2 in order to get toget together documents and for witnesses to give evidence but at least at the end of the trial the families involved could get some “justice” and the police held accountable.

Recently the Ministry of Justice have rejected widespread call for automatic legal aid for bereaved families following state related deaths so now families have to go through the process of trying to get legal aid or funding to try and get justice, this is once again another tactic used to protect the boys in blue from facing criminal charges.