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UK: Leo O'Reilly Support Group

01 September 1998

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The Leo O'Reilly Support Group held a picket of the West Midlands police headquarters in Birmingham during July. Leo O'Reilly, a 64-year old Irishman from Coventry, died in July 1984 after falling and hitting his head at his home. Instead of being escorted to hospital police arrested him for being drunk and incapable and after 15 hours in custody he was found lying in a pool of his own vomit at Little Park police station. He was rushed to hospital, where he died. An inquest established that alcohol played no part in his death. The campaign is supported by Coventry TUC, Geoff Robinson MP and solicitor Gareth Peirce. The Leo O'Reilly Support Group can be contacted c/o Coventry TUC, Koco Building Unit 15, The Arches Industrial estate, Spon End, Coventry CV1 3JQ.

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