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‘Serving police officer was with group that caused racially motivated death of Jay Abatan’

DaveCinzano

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WTF?!

The family of Jay Abatan, having learned that a serving police officer was with a group of people who fatally attacked Jay fifteen years ago, have met senior police officials.


Michael Abatan met the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne on 14 August 2014 to discuss the lack of progress of the investigation into the death of his brother. The meeting came after Sussex police revealed that a serving police officer had been with the group who attacked Jay on 24 January 1999. This information had not been disclosed to either the family, or the other police forces involved in the investigation, Essex and Avon & Somerset. The family alleges that the police links with the group of attackers has lead to a ‘wall of silence’ around the case.

Background

Jay Abatan was attacked after a night out with his brother and a friend in Brighton. He was punched twice and fell to the ground, hitting his head. He died five days later. The incident resulted in two men, Graham Curtis and Peter Bell, facing trial for affray and actual bodily harm to Jay’s brother, Michael, on which they were cleared. The jury was not told that Jay had died as a result of injuries sustained during the same attack because the judge thought it might influence the verdict. No-one was ever charged in relation to the attack on Jay.

A disciplinary tribunal of the police officers involved in the failed investigations into the murder found two officers guilty of various misconduct charges. However, the officers received only a reprimand and cautions for the failings, which included the failure to set up a major incident room; police officers allegedly being told to work on Jay’s case during ‘downtime’; as well as CCTV not being seized on the night of the attack.

Sussex police only treated the attack as racially motivated two years after it took place, after a sustained campaign by Jay’s wife and family.

A three-week inquest finally took place in October 2010, and found that Jay had been unlawfully killed. The inquest heard medical evidence confirming that Jay had been hit twice, something the family had always believed but that police had denied.

‘My family can no longer trust Sussex police’

Earlier this week, speaking about the revelation that a police officer had been with the group of attackers, Michael Abatan said: ‘My family can no longer trust Sussex police. We cannot understand why such significant facts have been kept from us regarding the night my brother was attacked. Important material such as this should have been fully disclosed to us, Essex and Avon & Somerset forces and also to the public … Given the catalogue of flaws we have been subjected to, this merits a full public inquiry into the case and I will be taking this up with the Home Secretary.’​

http://www.irr.org.uk/news/jay-abatan-family-demand-inquiry/
 


Earlier this week, speaking about the revelation that a police officer had been with the group of attackers, Michael Abatan said: ‘My family can no longer trust Sussex police. We cannot understand why such significant facts have been kept from us regarding the night my brother was attacked. Important material such as this should have been fully disclosed to us, Essex and Avon & Somerset forces and also to the public … Given the catalogue of flaws we have been subjected to, this merits a full public inquiry into the case and I will be taking this up with the Home Secretary.’​

I can understand exactly why all this was covered up.
 
What the fuck. Some one gets punched then fall and dies and no one is charged it is manslaughter at least.
Doesn't matter the reason why those who did it should go down. The copper who was there has some explaining to do at the very least either he was hanging around with rascist thugs or he hung around with idiots who like to start fights after a drink. Either way pretty much career ending imho.
 
The jury was not told that Jay had died as a result of injuries sustained during the same attack because the judge thought it might influence the verdict.

What the actual fuck? How the fuck is someone dying as a direct result of injuries gained during an assault supposed to be ignored? That judge should lose his fucking job!
 
What the actual fuck? How the fuck is someone dying as a direct result of injuries gained during an assault supposed to be ignored? That judge should lose his fucking job!
It was a trial for the assault on his brother I think.

So sad to think that things were like this so recently. I think maybe largely as a result of Steven Lawrence, things have changed a little bit.
 
It was a trial for the assault on his brother I think.

So sad to think that things were like this so recently. I think maybe largely as a result of Steven Lawrence, things have changed a little bit.
Stephen Lawrence was killed 6 years before this 2nd killing. The report into the police and legal systems handling of the investigation reported a year before the trial in this case. This is what post Stephen Lawrence justice looks like.
 
Stephen Lawrence was killed 6 years before this 2nd killing. The report into the police and legal systems handling of the investigation reported a year before the trial in this case. This is what post Stephen Lawrence justice looks like.
I think it took a long time for the Steven Lawrence report to (for want of a better phrase) "trickle down".
 
Probably some time last night.

Have you missed the absolute avalanche of revelations about police misconduct over the last few years? Those rather large riots?
Ok I think there has been some change. Things aren't perfect but I don't believe that racially motivated assault and the ignoring of it is still a national sport.
 
Ok I think there has been some change. Things aren't perfect but I don't believe that racially motivated assault and the ignoring of it is still a national sport.
Maybe you can call it progress if killing someone then professionally and collectively covering it up - in cahoots with the legal system - if it wasn't racially motivated?
 
The Institute of Race Relations say there has been 96 people killed with a racial element since the murder of Steven Lawrence. Fuck all has trickled down.

e2a: That stat (96) was from Jan 2012.
Jesus. I knew Britain was a racist country but that is disgusting.
 
I think it took a long time for the Steven Lawrence report to (for want of a better phrase) "trickle down".

Isn't the salient point that the "Stephen Lawrence report" was actually called "The Inquiry Into The Matters Arising From The Death of Stephen Lawrence" and dealt with the conduct of the police. The fact that a police officer was present at a 1999 murder and the victim's family were only informed this month rather gives the lie to any claim of 'trickle-down" improvement.
 
Isn't the salient point that the "Stephen Lawrence report" was actually called "The Inquiry Into The Matters Arising From The Death of Stephen Lawrence" and dealt with the conduct of the police. The fact that a police officer was present at a 1999 murder and the victim's family were only informed this month rather gives the lie to any claim of 'trickle-down" improvement.
Is that MacPherson?
 
Is that MacPherson?
Yes, then look at the dates in the article quoted in the OP.

Then look at the hillsborough thread for what police/state/etc foor dragging looks liike - then compare it to this case. Then check the dates on that thread too. Spot any consistencies?
 
Remember this was written up and off as a drunken incident outside a night club where someone died after a punch hitting themselves on a kerbstone.
One of the guilty fuckers killed themselves which is something I guess.:(
 
FWIW report in the Brighton Argus (14th Aug) gives the Police denial :
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1140..._victim_to_makes_plea_to_police_commissioner/

Detective Superintendent Nick May said: “There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that a serving police officer was among his attackers. The initial investigation into Mr Abatan’s death has been subject to considerable, well-documented scrutiny.

“Its shortcomings, for which former chief constable Joe Edwards personally apologised to Jay’s family in 2005, were highlighted in an independent review that resulted in the second investigation and review. At their request, the family were provided with a detailed account of this investigation.

“There has never been any suggestion by the independent reviews or the coroner of institutional racism.”

The force has completely updated and reorganised the way it investigates both major crime and critical incidents since 1999, Mr May said.

He added: “Significant changes to our investigative practices include a dedicated major crime team, accredited senior investigating officers and trained family liaison officers.

“Sussex Police has accepted that mistakes were made during the initial investigation into the unlawful killing of Jay Abatan, and regret that nobody has yet been convicted of this cowardly attack, even though two men were charged in connection with it.”

Denies he was "among his attackers". Leaves it open as to whether he was present and if so what he was doing (watching the drinks ? keeping the spectators in line ?).
 
The fact that a police officer was present at a 1999 murder and the victim's family were only informed this month rather gives the lie to any claim of 'trickle-down" improvement.


Consider how we are only now beginning to piece together - despite the best efforts of an intransigent policing establishment to stymy such efforts - a clear picture of how long term infiltration of political groups and justice campaigns by undercover police works, nearly fifty years after this particular programme began.

Some of the fresh-faced young constables who went through that programme in the late 60s, who were mentored and trained and indoctrinated in it, later rose to become the mentors and trainers and indoctrinators of later cohorts.

Still more ended up as very senior police officers in their own right, and running the very units responsible for the programme.

And yet others have taken to defending that programme and belittling its victims - all whilst profiting from selling their dubious skill-sets to the private sector, benefiting from the revolving door, and the pals in academe and industry and business, and the shadows that have kept hidden for so long their complicity in vicious crimes of dishonesty, violence, coercion and indecency.
 
FWIW report in the Brighton Argus (14th Aug) gives the Police denial :
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11408802.Brother_of_murder_victim_to_makes_plea_to_police_commissioner

Denies he was "among his attackers". Leaves it open as to whether he was present and if so what he was doing (watching the drinks ? keeping the spectators in line ?).

The statement put out by the family is phrased very specifically (hence the paraphrased title of the thread here) - I suspect Det Supt May has only thrown more fuel onto the fire with such a non-denial denial.
 
later rose to become the mentors and trainers and indoctrinators of later cohorts.
Seem to recall that the policy of rotating officers amongst departments facilitated graduates of the Drugs, Flying and Obscene Publications Squads to establish the "firm within a firm" across the Met in the 1970s.

Of course the undercover policing programme is 'noble cause' corruption.
 
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