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Remembrance – United for Justice

Taking place: 15th May 2010
Venue: Highfields Centre – Leicester

Information, Banner Displays, Stands, Films, Live Music and Poetry to remember our lost loved ones.

4WardEver UK, The Mikey Powell & Habib Ullah Campaigns and Leicester Civil Rights Movement are jointly presenting this event.

An event to mark what would have been Mikey Powell’s 45th birthday, and to showcase other families that have suffered the loss of a loved one in police, prison or psychiatric custody. The event will also pay tribute to Tony Egbuna Ford and others facing capital punishment in the United States.

Bookings:

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Please Note: All participants will need to book – Free and subsidised options are available…

Powell family makes Rule 43 recommendations

from the Friends of Mikey Powell Campaign for Justice
2nd January 2010

The following are the recommendations under Rule 43 * put to the Coroner by the family’s legal representatives following the jury verdict on 18^th December 2009. These recommendations are compiled not only in relation to Mikey’s case but to other similar cases both in the West Midlands region and nationally.

* About Rule 43

Under Rule 43 of the Coroners Rules (as amended with effect from 17 July 2008) Where:

1. a coroner is holding an inquest into a person’s death;
2. the evidence gives rise to a concern that circumstances creating a risk of other deaths will occur, or will continue to exist, in the future; and
3. in the coroner’s opinion, action should be taken to prevent the occurrence or continuation of such circumstances, or to eliminate or reduce the risk of death created by such circumstances,