The jury at the inquest into the tragic death while in police custody of service user Michael Lloyd Powell (known as Mikey) today returned a damning verdict and found that the way that he was restrained resulted in his

An inquest jury into death of a Birmingham dad who died in police custody was today considering its verdict. The jury retired yesterday after hearing almost six weeks of evidence in the case of Michael Powell.

A Birmingham man who died in police custody should not have been taken to a police station in a van, police conceded before an inquest jury. Father-of-three Michael Powell was restrained by several officers after smashing windows at his mother’s