Sheku Bayoh family criticise police group’s call to downgrade inquiry

Scottish Police Federation questions whether public inquiry was necessary into death in custody in 2015The lawyer for the family of Sheku Bayoh, whose death in custody is the subject of...

By Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent · The Guardian World

Scottish Police Federation questions whether public inquiry was necessary into death in custody in 2015 The lawyer for the family of Sheku Bayoh, whose death in custody is the subject of a stalled public inquiry, has criticised “speculation and delusions of grandeur” from the Scottish Police Federation after suggestions that the investigation could be downgraded to a fatal accident inquiry. At a press conference on Wednesday, the federation’s general secretary, David Kennedy, and lawyer Peter Watson questioned whether a public inquiry had been necessary when a fatal accident inquiry – similar to an inquest in England and Wales – was already mandatory for deaths in custody. Continue reading...