Client Stories

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has today confirmed it is investigating five current and three former Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers for gross misconduct. It comes as part of a re-investigation into how the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor were originally handled by the force. The four […]

The family of a 43-year-old mother who died in a Kent Police station believe a lack of professional care by officers may have contributed to her death after she was taken into custody following a domestic incident. Debbie Padley was taken to Tonbridge Police Station on the evening of 23rd July 2021 but 17 hours […]

The mother of a man who died after being restrained in Manchester Victoria Station says she has had to fight for two years to ensure the circumstances of his death ‘comes under the full scrutiny of the criminal courts’. Jack Barnes, a 29-year-old father from Hull, died after being chased and restrained by staff working […]

A Bedfordshire man has been awarded £5,900 damages after being wrongfully arrested, held in a police cell overnight and taken to court in a case of mistaken identity, The man, of Dunstable, was arrested at home in February and told by officers that it related to his failure to attend a court appearance relating to […]

A father who was handcuffed and arrested while on his way to collect his children from school has been awarded compensation from a police force following a claim for assault. The man, who runs his own business in Brough in East Riding of Yorkshire, said he suffered bruising and nerve injury to his arm after […]

Lawyers say ‘crucial evidence’ was not considered during investigations into the death of an elderly woman who was killed when hit by a police car as she crossed a road on her mobility scooter. Jessie Whitehead, 74, died after being struck by a marked Warwickshire Police car, which had been travelling at around 65mph on […]

The family of a 36-year-old mother who was strangled to death by her ex-partner have received a police apology stating the events leading up to her murder were “unconscionable and regrettable”. On the night she died Kerry Power, a primary school assistant, dialled 999 as she had been told to do so by an officer who […]

Greater Manchester Police has agreed compensation with a family after raiding their home and marching an innocent young cancer sufferer into the street wearing only his underwear. The man, aged 19 at the time, was in remission having undergone chemotherapy treatment for bone cancer. He had also recently undergone major surgery to his left leg, […]

Greater Manchester Police has agreed to pay damages to a mother who says officers dismissed her fears that she’d been drugged and raped on a night out and told her ‘nothing would come of it’. The woman, from Wigan, told police she feared she had been raped after waking fully undressed and ‘feeling sore’, in […]

The daughter of an Oxfordshire prisoner found hanged in his cell says lessons must be learned after successfully pursuing a civil case against the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Sarah-Jane Gray took legal action after learning how staff at HMP Bullingdon, in Bicester, became ‘complacent’ with regards to her father David’s repeated threats to take his […]