5-year-old shot by police in Birmingham
- Title
- 5-year-old shot by police in Birmingham
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 26 Aug 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:03:07
- Description
- Interview with Labour Party home affairs spokesman Alf Dubs, reacting to the accidental police shooting dead of 5-year-old John Shorthouse, at his home in Birmingham on 24/08/85. Female reporter not identified. (In 1986 the officer who shot John, PC Brian Chester, was acquitted of manslaughter.)
- Contributors
- Alf Dubs
- Keywords
- Deaths; Police; Children (age group); Birmingham; Policing practice; Firearms; Accidental death; John Shorthouse
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