{"id":47076,"date":"2026-01-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/?p=47076"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:12:05","slug":"the-peoples-tribunal-on-police-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/law-police-justice\/criminal-justice-prisons\/the-peoples-tribunal-on-police-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The People&#8217;s Tribunal on Police Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap drop-cap-paragraph\">The friends and families of those who \u2018died in custody\u2019 in the UK, frustrated with the inability of reform to deliver justice, have established the <a href=\"https:\/\/peoplestribunal.info\/tribunal\/on-police-killings\/\">People\u2019s Tribunal on Police Killings<\/a>. Bringing together over twenty families for a class action lawsuit against the police, it will be the first time families have initiated a group prosecution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tribunal renames these deaths \u2018killings\u2019, due to the systematic nature of the cases. They told me: \u2018we need no more legislation, no more excuses, no more police training. The criminal law needs to be applied to police officers\u2026 we are abolitionist in our approach but in the meantime cops that kill should go to jail\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is an anti-reformist position combined with a practical demand for justice. In line with this, the group is critical of various efforts to change the police through government reviews, inquests and improvements to police watchdogs, such as the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). Reforms to these institutions got them no closer to prosecutions, and often diverted them from justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The problem with reform<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This problem came into focus after an internal report was released by the Metropolitan Police \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.met.police.uk\/SysSiteAssets\/media\/downloads\/force-content\/met\/about-us\/london-race-action-plan\/30-patterns-of-harm.pdf\">\u201830 Patterns of Harm\u2019<\/a>. It argued racism was \u2018built in\u2019 the Metropolitan Police, which&nbsp; the police responded by promising to establish a government review followed by a process of&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/nov\/07\/met-polices-culture-makes-racial-harm-inevitable-internal-review-finds\">reform<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The changes proposed by reviews like these are treated with extreme scepticism by the tribunal. One of the key members of the tribunal is Samantha Patterson, whose brother Jason McPherson \u2018died\u2019 on 18 January 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha was exhausted by these reports, arguing: \u2018Killings have increased, and they&#8217;re increasing in a more violent way. It&#8217;s not getting better in anyway whatsoever\u2026 [even if] you have a Lord, Lady or Baroness, write 10,000 words to say what they think needs to be done and what needs to be changed\u2019.&nbsp;Last year was the highest number of deaths in and following police custody in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquest.org.uk\/iopc-stats-2023-4\">17 years<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have already been numerous ineffective reports on making policing less discriminatory. One of these, the Angiolini Review, has since been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/nov\/01\/report-into-deaths-in-custody-in-england-and-wales-kicked-into-long-grass\">kicked into the long grass<\/a>, according to its own author. The problem was never recommending improvements; it was always a lack of political will to prosecute officers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Labour and Centring Reform<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand how the government came to invest in this ineffectual strategy of reform, we must look at the start of this process under New Labour. Blair\u2019s government came to power ready to embrace reform and expand the criminal justice system. NGOs and charities who had been&nbsp; excluded from the prior Thatcher government were finally included in the new government\u2019s policy on prisons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minor concessions given to these charities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/29767236\">involved<\/a> \u2018access to prisons, consultative meetings, friendly relationships with administrators, and openness to discussing alternatives to incarceration\u2019. However, the government increased the number of incarcerated people. To the frustration of reformers, New Labour\u2019s new approach was a dual process of expanding incarceration and encouraging reform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government also used reform to \u2018address\u2019 institutional racism revealed by the Stephen Lawrence campaign. New Labour replaced the old police watchdog, the Police Complaints Authority, with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), to make it separate from the police with fewer former officers in the organisation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The role of the body was to investigate thoroughly and make recommendations for prosecutions. However, it was flawed from the start. The so-called \u2018independent\u2019 police investigation into Jean Charles De Menezes killing failed to reveal key information about his killing, such as him not vaulting over a ticket barrier before being shot. The only reason we know the truth of what happened is because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2006\/jul\/22\/menezes.lifeandhealth\">a whistle-blower<\/a> from the IPCC revealed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite these problems, successive governments continued with this strategy of incremental changes to the police watchdog. After being plagued by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2008\/feb\/25\/police.law\">scandals<\/a> for years, the IPCC became the Independent Office of Police Conduct in 2018. Members of the tribunal, like Samantha, did not believe this reflected a meaningful shift in the institution: \u2018You can change the name of the IPCC to the IOPC, to whatever you want to. It is the same institution, it&#8217;s the same body, and nothing has changed.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the IOPC\u2019s claim to be an independent body, they still employ a combination of those who worked in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policeconduct.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/IOPC-Staff-Diversity-Report-2021.pdf\">police<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/placements-of-police-officers-and-staff-outside-of-their-home-force\/placements-of-police-officers-and-staff-outside-of-their-home-force-accessible\">seconded police<\/a>, and non-police to investigate complaints. Since these \u2018changes\u2019, only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/london-jermaine-baker-old-bailey-thomas-orchard-england-b2632934.html\">one<\/a> officer has ever been successfully prosecuted for murder or manslaughter post-1986.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inquests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another way which New Labour enacted its policy of prison reform was through the inquest court system, where the coroner tries to establish the circumstances in which someone has died. Both sides might have lawyers to argue their case, and verdicts, like \u2018unlawful killing\u2019, \u2018neglect\u2019 or \u2018natural causes\u2019 are determined by a jury. In this system, no one can establish any form of civil or criminal liability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under New Labour, the Human Rights Act 1999 enabled a range of new laws to be applied which expanded the scope of these courts. However, the inability of this court to deliver prosecutions remained unchanged.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center rp-full-width rp-quote has-grey-color has-pale-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-antonio-font-family\" style=\"padding-top:2%;padding-right:2%;padding-bottom:2%;padding-left:2%;font-size:clamp(1.743rem, 1.743rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.571), 3rem);\">\u2018I don&#8217;t want my children to look at me and say, &#8220;Jason died all those years ago and the police are still doing what they&#8217;re doing\u2026&#8221; that&#8217;s why this tribunal is important.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This problem continues to this day, as noted by another member of the tribunal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regents.ac.uk\/about\/our-people\/dr-ken-fero\">Ken Fero<\/a> \u2013 founding member of Migrant Media \u2013 who has been part of these campaigns for over two decades. When it came to the inquest system, he argued: \u2018It&#8217;s almost like there&#8217;s a huge war going on and there&#8217;s been a kind of diversionary tactic to make people focus on inquests\u2026 the inquest system has never led to a successful prosecution for a police officer for manslaughter or murder\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lack of action persists despite inquests often issuing the critical verdict of \u2018unlawful killing\u2019. It seems a powerless institution which drains time, with people continually trying to fix it. For the one officer who was prosecuted since 1986, there was no inquest, only a direct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-shropshire-57603091\">criminal trial<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moving towards justice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Incremental reform prioritises marginal fixes in the future over the necessity of immediate justice whilst diverting time and energy towards institutions that have repeatedly failed to hold the police accountable. Consequently, the tribunal is initiating a direct prosecution \u2013 a class action lawsuit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawsuits like these can be successful; in 2015 seven women received an apology by the metropolitan police and undisclosed financial settlements after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-34875197\">deceived <\/a>into relationships with undercover police. It led to other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jan\/25\/activist-deceived-relationship-met-police-officer-wins-compensation-kate-wilson\">prosecutions<\/a> of the police and widespread acknowledgment they violated these women\u2019s rights. Yet despite the success of class action lawsuits, they have never been done in relation to \u2018deaths in police custody\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha added another reason why this is an important route for the tribunal: \u2018I don&#8217;t want in many years time for my children to look at me and say, &#8220;hang on a minute Jason died all those years ago and the police are still doing what they&#8217;re doing [killing people]\u2026&#8221; that&#8217;s why this tribunal is important.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tribunal\u2019s class action provides hope policing will change for future generations and the possibility that the state will be forced to acknowledge family\u2019s rights have been violated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of waiting for change, friends and family of people who &#8216;died in police custody&#8217; are coming together to demand justice from the police writes James Whitfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":47079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2539,2538],"tags":[3175],"class_list":["post-47076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-justice-prisons","category-policing","tag-james-whitfield"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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