Sheku Bayoh family criticise police group’s call to downgrade inquiry
The Guardian – World —
Scottish Police Federation questions whether public inquiry was necessary into death in custody in 2015The lawyer for the family of Sheku Bayoh, whose death in custody is the subject of a stalled public inquiry, has criticised “speculation and delusions of grandeur” from the Scottish Police Federation after suggestions that the investigation could be downgraded to a fatal accident inquiry.At a press conference on Wednesday, the federation’s general secretary, David Kennedy, and lawyer Peter Watson questioned whether a public inquiry had been necessary when a fatal accident inquiry – similar to an inquest in England and Wales – was already mandatory for deaths in custody. Continue reading...