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Watchdog investigates death of Birmingham man

Kingsley Burrelloriginally by: BBC News
3rd April 2011

Kingsley Burrell Brown was detained under the Mental Health Act last Sunday after officers attended an incident on Iknield Port Road, Birmingham. He was admitted to a unit in the city and later moved to a hospital where he died on Thursday, police said.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said post-mortem test results may be known early next week. Maxi Hayles, chairman of the Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit, told BBC News Mr Brown’s family were waiting to be told what caused his death at the city’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

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4th anniversary of Gilly Mundy’s death

Gilly Mundycompiled from various sources: 4WardEver UK
13th March 2011

This year marks 4 years since the death of one of the stalwarts of the campaign movement against deaths in police custody and abuse by police and prison officers in the UK. Gilly saved three lives and restored the sight of two others when he donated his organs after his death.

Friend and colleague Kevin Blowe said: “As a campaigner and activist, Gilly managed to cram so much into his own life and touch the lives of so many others that it is almost too painful to imagine what more he could have achieved.

“As well as supporting victims of racist violence in East London while at the NMP, he worked for the Lawrence Family Campaign during the inquiry into Stephen Lawrence’s murder.”

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Complaints against police & The Telegraph

Mikey Powellfrom a Press Release by: INQUEST
15th December 2010

Claris Powell, mother of Mikey Powell, has made a police complaint that the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police has misled the Police Authority in his report on the inquest into the death of Mikey Powell and failed to take any action as a result of the verdict.

Mikey Powell was handcuffed by police and put on the floor of a police van which drove to Thornhill Road Police Station in Birmingham in September 2003.

The jury found in December 2009 that Mikey Powell died of positional asphyxia in the back of a police van and that he was lying on his front on arrival at the police station, contrary to the van officers’ evidence at the inquest.

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