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UK: Shiji Lapite - no charges

01 July 1995

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced that they will not be bringing charges against the police officers who killed Shiji Lapite last December. Mr Lapite died after being arrested by two plain-clothes policemen from the notorious Stoke Newington police station (see Statewatch vol 5, no 1). A post-mortem examination, carried out on behalf of the family, found extensive bruising and cuts to Mr Lapite's head and face, although the actual cause of death was asphyxia. The cause of death was consistent with the use of a violent neck-lock that crushed his windpipe. The evidence from two other post-mortems has not been released. In a press-release the CPS said that "there was insufficient evidence to support a realistic prospect of convicting any police officer". There will now be a public inquest. Police Complaints Authority press release 18.7.95.

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