Joy Gardner second postmortem

Title

Joy Gardner second postmortem

Genre

Interview

TX Date

10 Aug 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:25

Description

Interview with Tottenham MP Bernie Grant on the results of a second post mortem on Jamaican woman Joy Gardner, who died after a struggle with police officers as they tried to serve a deportation order at her flat in Hornsey. The postmortem showed she died from suffocation which he says vindicates the families claim officers used undue force to restrain her. He calls for a public inquiry. Female interviewer Angela Rippon? For Drivetime show.

Contributors

Bernie Grant; Angela Rippon?

Keywords

Deaths; Deportation; Police; Policing practice; Police personnel; Public inquiries; Joy Gardner; Drivetime (radio programme); Postmortems; Hornsey

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