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In 2009 Ian Tomlinson died at a G20 protest as he was just trying to make his way home.

Initially, police said that the post mortem showed he died of "natural causes".

After video evidence revealed he had had a helluva push from PC Harwood, a further post mortem showed he died of abdominal bleeding caused by the blow received while he was walking away from the PC.

The inquest gave a verdict of unlawful killing. Harwood goes to a criminal trial and is found not guilty of manslaughter.

It emerged that, in 2000, five years after he joined the Met, PC Harwood was involved in what was described at Tomlinson's inquest as a "road rage" incident but his employment record was kept from the jury. He was off-duty and the other driver complained of unlawful arrest and abuse of authority.

PC Harwood denied the accusation but retired on medical grounds in 2001 before a disciplinary hearing took place. Despite all of that he was able to rejoin the police in 2004.

Makes you wonder what has to happen to convict a policeman for manslaughter or murder whilst doing their policing job.

There were ten complaints against this policecunt over twelve years.

A road rage incident, an accusation of assault and an allegation that he kneed a civilian in the chest as he made an arrest and threatened to "send people round to set fire to his house".

He attempted to illegally access the database of Police National Computer and received a written warning.

He failed to ask a driver for his name and address and then amended his notes to suggest that he had done so and that the driver had refused to cooperate.

Why the hell did they allow him to continue? I hope the family bring some sort of civil case against the police and this obnoxious bastard.

Apparently over a 1000 people have died in police custody in the last 40 odd years and not a single conviction.

There appears to be a great reluctance to:

1. Bring a case.
2. Even when a criminal case has been brought, to get a jury conviction.

What would be the verdict if you or I did the same thing as a person walked past?



No cop will ever be convicted of anything apart from maybe corruption. or taking bribes. In effect they now have a "licence to kill."

The cop in this case pushed Tomlinson to the ground, for sport, for fun, nothing else and he must be now sniggering up his sleeve.

Disgusting verdict.

He must be a senior grand wizard at his local lodge. No wonder people distrust the Police. Not sure what it is like across other areas but all our local coppers wear black from head to foot and it looks a tad Fascist....and that's coming from a life long right winger!

You can be a , "Right-winger" but still believe in natural justice and the rule of law for ALL, Arginald. To be honest this verdict wouldn't have surprised me if it had occurred under New Labour. It is depressing that when "Push comes to shove", no pun intended, when it comes to "Justice" for the likes of you and me, they are all a bunch of total bastards. New labour, Tory, Coalition, the Goddamn lot!

It brings to mind the killing of Blair Peach in 1979. Evil witch Margaret Thatcher was in power. Those were the days when the Labour Party were the party of justice and the Tories supported the establishment to the death.

Nothing has changed excpet Labour are now cunts as well!

As disappointing as this verdict certainly is, one must question the charge he was facing. I'm sure a conviction, and the subsequent well deserved custodial sentence, could have been achieved with a lower charge such as grievous bodily harm or even simply assault. Juries often return what seem to those of us not involved, to be perverse decisions, but clearly they decided that the evidence presented and the doubt engendered by Tomlinson's health required a not guilty verdict. That said, if the family decide to go for a private prosecution I'll probably make a donation to the legal fund.

andy at handiwork wrote:

> . That said, if
> the family decide to go for a private prosecution I'll probably
> make a donation to the legal fund.

Count me in as well. Get Michael Mansfield QC to kick their arses!

PS The charge had to be manslaughter because the assault ended in death. If Tomlinson had ended up in a permanent coma, the GBH could well have stuck. All i can think, was that the prosecution laywer was shit, because it is blatantly obvious to the whole country that the copper is guilty.

It was said that PC Harwood used, "Reasonable force". "Reasonable force" in doing what, smashing and then pushing an innocent member of the public to the ground for no reason? Maybe if he had then kicked him repeatedly and stamped on his head, maybe, just maybe, he'd have been found guilty!