News reports on the trial
last update: 3rd January 2010 *

Third Parties

News from third party sources will be posted here as often as we find them.
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Press Features
from the BBC, BLINK, Birmingham Post & others

You can’t trust the police with your children’s lives
5th August 2006
My cousin Mikey Powell died because officers treated him as a racial stereotype, instead of a sick man in need of help.
Benjamin Zephaniah

Forcing the issue
25th May 2005
Poet urges police to drop ‘combat’ attitude towards black youths

Police death probe storm
22nd September 2004

Custody case six suspended
20th January 2004

March for custody death man
15th November 2003

Call for custody death suspensions
25th September 2003

Victim ‘aimed gun at police’
21st September 2003
A completely untrue allegation that was never founded.
The police denied that they were the source of this information.

Swift inquiry call over death
19th September 2003

Campaign group help family
19th September 2003

Police mowed down my son
14th September 2003

Police custody death inquiry opens
10th September 2003

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Note: The views and opinions expressed in the above articles are not necessarily those of the Mikey Powell family, and views stated to have been quoted by the family or representatives may not always be wholly accurate.