Joy Gardner’s death

Title
Joy Gardner’s death
Genre
News report; Interview
TX Date
5 Aug 1993
Year of production
1993
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Duration
00:03:19
Description
John Terrett reports on Myrna Simpson’s claims at a public meeting in Hornsey that her daughter was bound and gagged by police and virtually dead before arriving at hospital. Jamaican Joy Gardner died after a struggle with police officers as they tried to serve a deportation order at her Hornsey home. Djemal Dervish, Myrna’s solicitor, talks about the claims and the evidence they have and local MP Bernie Grant reacts to criticisms he is fuelling racial anger towards the police. For Drivetime show.
Contributors
John Terrett; Bernie Grant; Djemal Dervish
Keywords
Deaths; Deportation; Interethnic relations; Police; Demonstrations; Metropolitan Police; Policing practice; Black peoples; Immigration services; Institutional racism; Joy Gardner; Drivetime (radio programme); Hornsey; Myrna Simpson

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