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October 2013

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United Families & Friends Remember the Killed

Whitehall, London. Sat 26 Oct 2013

 

 
 The United Families & Friends Campaign met on the edge of Trafalgar Square

 

 Many wore t-shirts which a picture of friend or family killed by the police - such as Billy Spiller found hanging
in his cell at Aylesbury Young Offender Institution on 5 Nov 2011, age 21

 There were large banners for some of those killed, including Roger Sylvester, killed when restrained by police in 1999

 

Olaseni Lewis, known as Seni, died after being restrained by up to 11 police, The family recently won a won a
legal battle to reopen an inquiry into his death at Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham in 2010.

 Anthony Grainger was killed by Greater Manchester Police in 2012. A gagging order prevented this man from speaking

 Jason Thompson hanged himself in HMP Swansea in 2004. He was 26,
      
 Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennet, twin sister of Leon Patterson killed in a Stockport police cell in 1992

  Ajibola Lewis, the mother of Olaseni Lewis
 
The banner behind the figures is for Mark Duggan, killed by police in 2011; police actions triggered widespread rioting
      
Carole Duggan wearing a t-shirt showing her nephew  

Zita Holbourne holds one end of the BARAC banner 

Marcia Rigg, one of the sisters of Sean Rigg, killed by police in Brixton in 2008 talks to Ken Fero who made a film about his death 

Marcia Rigg and Carole Duggan

 

   

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