Year: 2009

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Telegraph angers Powell family and supporters

Cousins of Mikey Powellfrom the Mikey Powell Campaign
22nd December 2009

An article that appeared on The Telegraph website caused upset and anger prompting the family of Mikey, their legal team, INQUEST and supporters to complain in their droves.

Legal representatives have written to the news group stating;  “Alasdair Palmer’s article on the Michael Powell inquest (‘The Michael Powell case shows how charges of racism hobble the police’, December 20) was riddled with grave factual inaccuracies, which masked the important issues this case raised, and which has provoked a raft of entirely misconceived, offensive and racist comments on your website as a result”.

Tippa Naphtali, a cousin of Mikey, infuriated by the inaccuracies wrote the following to the editor of the group:

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Correction: Press Release

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A small but important error has been pointed out:

Question 4 that was put to the jury by the Coroner read
If you have found that the cause of death was positional asphyxia (question 1), on the balance of probabilities:-
Was the initial position in the van on his front or his side?

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Larry Fedja

Family weep as verdict returned

Clarissa Powell (Mother)from Birmingham Mail
15th December 2009

The family of a man who died in police custody wept tears of joy as they claimed that an inquest had given them “truth and justice”. The jury at the hearing found that Michael Powell died from positional asphyxia caused by lying on his front in the back of a police van.

The jury also recorded that Mr Powell, aged 38, became more vulnerable to death for one or more possible reasons. They included being hit by a moving police car, being sprayed with CS gas, being struck by a baton or being restrained on the ground while suffering a psychosis and extreme exertion.

It took the ten-man jury three days to reach an eight-to-two majority verdict. They could not agree on whether the police restraint was “reasonable in the circumstances”.

The father-of-three died on September 7, 2003, at the age of 38.

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