Duggan’s High Court appeal fails

An attempt by Mark Duggan’s family to overturn an inquest verdict that cleared police of any wrongdoing in relation to his shooting has failed, Press TV reports.

Britain’s High Court rejected the family’s request for a judicial review on Tuesday.

Mark Duggan’s aunt, Carole Duggan, told the Press TV correspondent in London, “We haven’t been given anything at all from the beginning. I don’t think we have had a fair hearing. And I think maybe the result of the 2011 uprisings has been the reason. But Mark’s mother, Pamela, she is devastated… by the results. She just wants some truth and transparency. We all want that… We didn’t get it through the inquest. We are still going to have to fight, and we are going to appeal.”

“We are not going away, we have been told that the authorities don’t like this case, they don’t like this surrounding, they don’t like anything about it. They wish it would go away, we wish it could go away. But we can’t until we get justice.”

Tottenham rights coordinator, Stafford Scott, told the correspondent, “I believe that in a few weeks time we will be calling for a full public inquiry into the police, their handling of this matter…”

On January 8, eight of the ten London High Court jurors ruled that British police officers acted lawfully when they shot the unarmed man in the chest in the northern London neighborhood of Tottenham.

Duggan’s death at the hands of British police officers on August 4, 2011 sparked massive unrest across England in the summer of the same year. It was the worst social unrest Britain faced in a generation, unleashing street protests, fighting with the police and arson attacks.

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