From Ian Tomlinson Family Campaign
The inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson, who died during the G20 protests in 2009, will commence on Monday 28 March 2011 and is expected to last for of 5-6 weeks. It is expected to sit from Monday to Thursday from 10.00am – 4.00pm. The family welcomes supporters to attend.
An inquest is a legal investigation that is open to the public. Its purpose is to establish who the person was and where, when and how they died.
The inquest will be conducted by the Chief Coroner, Judge Peter Thornton QC, who replaces the City of London Coroner Paul Matthews. Hearings will take place at the International Dispute Resolution Centre at 70 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1EU.
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*Cough* *Cough* Whitewash *cough* *cough* I suspect if there is a jury involved the “directions” from the judge will cover any possibility of this being returned as unlawful death.
Rather like the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.
I just hope that one way and another something will come out of this Inquest that will help Tomlinson’s family members in their fight for justice. That is a hope and only time will tell. So far as of this evening very little media coverage. I am wondering too what will happen this Friday another anniversary of Ian’s killing. Will folk be going to the City or will they be obliged to forgoe that because of the Inquest.
Interesting to see from The Guardian Tomlinson Inquest reports yesterday that a police officer who encountered Ian Tomlinson just shortly before P C Simon Harwood made his fatal criminal attacks gave testimony indicating that Tomlinson had NOT been behaving in any way aggressively including verbally during his Tomlinson encounter.
I have just viewed a Guardian news feature about the Inquest which generally addresses the record for yesterdays hearing and scene sets for later today. In doing so it narrates, in a passing chosen words, what Tomlinsons attacker got up to – namely that Harwood had “pushed” Tomlinson from behind. ‘Pushed” seems something of a vanilla understatement and this is from The Guardian from who one might expect better – Tomlinson was attacked and very violently bowled over from behind. And there is something else – by the time of that vicious assault Harwood had also viciously already attempted to soften up and injure Tomlinson with an incredibly violent lashing – still from behind – with his baton to Tomlinson’s left legs so the attacks were sequential not singular. And yesterday media reports across the board so far as I read only narrowly mentioned that Tomlinson had been “pushed”. It is very disappointing that the full extent of the Harwood attacks – sequential plural attacks – are not being fully narrated. Shame on The Guardian too from whom one expected better from. Why did Hawood smash Tomlinson on the legs if not to disable and destabilise him somewhat in preparation for Harwoods next violent attack.