Campaigners in Germany, protesting at the suspicious death in custody of Oury Jalloh in 2005 and the subsequent cover-up by the criminal justice system, are looking to the Lawrence trial, the Macpherson Report and other British institutional responses to see how Germany could learn from the British experience.
BraunMarkus Omar, ‘Christy Schwundeck, 19. Mai 2011’, in Neue Rheinische Zeitung (27February2012), available at: http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=16655 (visited 27 February 2012).
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BBC, ‘Joy Gardner’s family sues police’ (15February1999), available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/279922.stm (visited 27 February 2012); Guardian, ‘Why? Special report, deaths in police custody’ (30 March 2001), available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/celldeaths/article/0,,465301,00.html (visited 27 February 2012). Research into suspicious BME deaths in custody is being undertaken at the Institute of Race Relations by Harmit Athwal who can be contacted at: mit@irr.org.uk.
For more information, please see Margo Overath, ‘Tod einesasylanten – was geschah in Zelle Nr.5?’, Der Tagesspiegel (7 January 2011), available at: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/, Breaking the Silence, op. cit.; and IRR News Team, op. cit.
