Calls for inquiry into death of Joy Gardner

Title

Calls for inquiry into death of Joy Gardner

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:05:28

Description

Interview with Bernie Grant MP for Tottenham on the calls for a judicial inquiry into the death of a Jamaican woman, Joy Gardner, after a struggle with police officers as they tried to serve a deportation order at her flat in Hornsey. On the second postmortem saying she died of suffocation; what they want the inquiry to do; how information regarding police guidelines on deportation orders is secret; if Joy Gardner was in a frenzy as reported by newspapers; and what he is expecting from his meeting with Prime Minister John Major. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Bernie Grant

Keywords

Deaths; Deportation; Police; Policing practice; Police personnel; Public inquiries; John Major; Joy Gardner; Postmortems; Hornsey; Judicial review

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