Agenda 2019

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/05/ian-tomlinson-apology-met-police Ian Tomlinson's family win apology from Met police over death in 2009   The family of Ian Tomlinson "win an apology" from the Met Police. The inquest into the death of the newspaper seller, eventually decided that Ian Tomlinson had been unlawfully killed. The jury at the trial of Simon Harwood, the police officer who had used "excessive and unlawful force"  inexplicably found Harwood not guilty of Tomlinson's manslaughter. A decision which rates amongst the most incredible verdicts ever reached by a jury in the history of the English legal system. Simon Harwood: inexplicably found not guilty     In the meantime, no other officer has faced disciplinary action in connection with the killing, and Harwood  who was sacked for gross misconduct in September last year,  keeps his police pension as he has not been convicted of a criminal offence. The ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/17/simon-harwood-sacked-gross-misconduct?fb=native "It's like they have just let PC Harwood resign. The conflicting verdicts of the inquest and criminal court still need to be resolved. We haven't given up; we will now be looking to the civil courts for the final judgment on who killed our dad.   An appalling and totally inept cover up and whitewash of a killing. The initial inquest recorded a verdict of "unlawful killing" and since then there has been a systematic and swift programme to sanitise the events, into an action by a rouge officer culminating in no more than his dismissal for "gross misconduct". This grotesque  sequence events has robbed Ian Tomlinson's family of any justice. Even the police disciplinary hearing into the conduct of PC Simon Harwood, degenerated into farce, lasing less than half a day when, by a cleaver but cynical piece of legal footwork, an admission of misconduct resu...