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UK: Officer involved in restraint of Sean Rigg resigns ahead of disciplinary investigation

29 May 2014

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"Family calls on Metropolitan Police Commissioner to withdraw acceptance of resignation: The family of Sean Rigg, who died in Brixton police station in August 2008 following prolonged restraint by police, have called on the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan Howe to urgently withdraw his acceptance of the resignation of PC Andrew Birks, the senior arresting officer involved in the restraint."

See the article: Officer involved in restraint of Sean Rigg resigns ahead of disciplinary investigation (Inquest, link)

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