Deaths in Police Custody Awareness Week - Very important Updates (Full Press release and photos on the website) http://www.shekubayoh.org/ PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE 30 0ctober 2015 Significant Updates - Deaths in Police Custody Awareness Week 26 October – 31 October 2015 Every day this week, there have been events to highlight death in police custody, from meetings at Westminster, community events, conferences in universities, film screenings and a publication launch. Significant actions for three cases of injustice against young Black men who have died in Police custody in the UK, for Sheku Bayoh, Mark Duggan and Kingsley Burrell. 
On Thursday 29 Oct
ober The first public meeting in London, hosted by MP Roger Mullin at Westminster was held for Sheku Bayoh who died on 3 May in police custody in Kirckaldy. 
Ten MP’s attended the meeting as well as local human rights organisations, family and friends including London Campaign Against Police and State Violence, United Family and Friends Committee (UFFC), Family Lawyer Aamer Anwar and Deborah Coles of Inquest During the two hour session, several questions were raised during the meeting at Parliament. From 
Women of Colour
: Why is it that a police officer with a known history of domestic violence still in the police force? 

 The African community is asking the key question “has racism played a part in Sheku’s death and investigation both institutionally and at individual level?" Sheku Bayoh’s eldest sister, Kosna Bayoh: 
What are the police procedures when making an arrest? Were the correct procedures followed? Had the police involved been properly and sufficiently trained?
 The week culminates in the peaceful annual remembrance procession march on 31 October fronted by the United Families and Friends Campaign from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street, where a petition will be handed in to demand justice for those who have died in state custody in suspicious and controversial circumstances. This year, more family and friends of family than ever before will march, including friends supporting the Sheku Bayoh family from Scotland and friends of the United Friends and Family Committee from the USA. Statement from Ken Fero – Director - the banned documentary film ‘Injustice’ about the struggles for justice by families whose loved ones have been killed by the police. Founding member of United Families & Friends Campaign with Myrna Simpson, Brenda Weinberg and Minkah Adofo. “Statistics on deaths in police custody in the UK over the past 40 years show a constant rise in police brutality and the ability of the different elements of the state - whether it is the Home Office, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Scotland) or the Crown Prosecution Service - to guarantee immunity to police officers that kill. The UK’s appalling record of deaths in custody is matched only by its failure to successfully prosecute one single officer for what is now exceeding thousands of deaths. Whilst the excuses, inquiries and investigations by the state inevitably fail by design to make effective change, recent years have seen an increase in the campaigning and resistance of the families of those that have died to demand justice for their loved ones. Time has stood still for many families which is why even after 20 years of struggle Myrna Simpson, the mother of Joy Gardner who was brutally killed by police in her home in North London by being shacked in chains and suffocated by 13 feet of making tape around her mouth, can still cry out today ‘My tears will catch them’. Historical crimes like this still burn in our memoirs and will never be forgotten.” A Call for Action We ask people to write to their local MP’s, sign our petitions for justice, start new petitions, hold public meetings, hold an event throughout the UK this week to demand that the state act on the demands of the families who have suffered injustice at the hands of state authorities. We ask the Prime Minister to act – to read the demands, listen to the families and respond to them directly by acting on the demands that they will hand into Downing Street on 31 October 2015. It is the final week of Black History Month - a month of celebration. This is not the history we want to ‘celebrate’. For more information contact e:shekubayohrip@gmail.com t: ‪@Justice4Sheku‬‬‬‬‪ ‬‬‬‬‬ Details can be found on: http://www.shekubayoh.org SIGNIFICANT OUTCOMES TO HIGHLIGHT THE AWARENESS OF DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODY AROUND THE COUNTRY Monday 26 Oct Kingsley Burrell http://justice4kingsley.org/2015/10/26/kingsley-burrell-police-restraint-death-west-midlands-officers-referred-to-cps/ Tues 27 October Mark Duggan http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/27/mark-duggans-family-wins-right-to-appeal-against-lawful-killing-finding Thursday 29 Oct Meeting at Westminster Sheku Bayoh Family hosted by MP Roger Mullins has invited other MP's to listen to their case. Family Lawyer Aamer Anwar and Deborah Coles of Inquest will be present Friday 30 Oct Film Screening Fruitvale Station with Uncle Bobby whose nephew Oscar Grant was killed by police on New Years Day 2009 (Sheku Bayoh family members and Marcia Rigg (sister of Sean Rigg)will speak briefly before the film) Time: 18.30 Venue: Karibu Centre 7 Gresham Rd, London SW9 7PH 020 7733 9423 https://www.facebook.com/events/861280867274048/ 31 Oct UFFC (United Families & Friends Campaign) march Time: Midday Starting point: Trafalgar Square, London End point: 10 Downing Street, London (Sheku Bayoh family members will be joining the march)