Mark Duggan: mother of man shot dead by police in 2011 calls for urgent inquiryPosted in Articles, Law, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, United Kingdom on 2015-08-22 00:44Z by Steven |
Mark Duggan: mother of man shot dead by police in 2011 calls for urgent inquiry
The Guardian
2015-08-04
 Pamela Duggan claims police could have done much more to track down the man who supplied a weapon to her son. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA |
Call for new inquiry comes as demonstrators prepare to march to Tottenham police station close to where Duggan was shot by police four years ago
The mother of Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police led to the 2011 London riots, is calling for an urgent inquiry by the home secretary into the events that led to her son’s death four years ago.
Demonstrators are due to march to Tottenham police station later on Tuesday close to where Duggan was shot by police on 4 August 2011, shortly after collecting a firearm from gun supplier Kevin Hutchinson-Foster.
 The jury at the inquest into Duggan’s death found that police could have done more to take the gun off the street in the days before he picked it up. Photograph: Rex Features |
A demonstration outside the same police station a few days after Duggan’s fatal shooting was followed by the biggest riots in the UK for years…
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