Tomlinson unlawfully killed at G20 protests, inquest rules
Ian Tomlinson killing: officer could face manslaughter charge: Decision not to prosecute PC Simon Harwood under review after inquest rules that Tomlinson was unlawfully killed.
The police officer who attacked Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in London in 2009 could be prosecuted for manslaughter after an inquest jury ruled that the newspaper seller was unlawfully killed. Returning their verdict after three hours of deliberation, jurors said Tomlinson died of internal bleeding in the abdomen after being struck with a baton and pushed to the ground by a police officer. For legal reasons, the verdict did not name the officer, Metropolitan police constable Simon Harwood. However, the jury said that "excessive and unreasonable" force was used when he struck the newspaper vendor who "posed no threat".
The first pathologist to conduct a postmortem examination on Tomlinson, Dr Freddy Patel, said he died of a heart attack as a result of coronary heart disease. He was contradicted by three other pathologists who examined the body, all of whom found he died of internal bleeding in the abdomen.
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