Hudgell Solicitors has today received the High Court judgment following a Judicial Review into the outcome of a Jury Inquest, which concluded in October 2021, in relation to the fatal shooting of Hull man Lewis Skelton by a Humberside Police officer in November 2016.
The Inquest Jury unanimously concluded that it was more likely than not that Lewis had been ‘unlawfully killed’.
The Humberside Police officer – only ever named using the cipher ‘B50’ – had challenged the Coroner’s conduct of the hearing, claiming the summing-up of the case was deficient and that there had been insufficient evidence for the Coroner to leave the option of an unlawful killing conclusion to the Jury.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith and Mr Justice Fordham today issued a judgment which dismissed the challenge on all grounds, upholding the Jury’ s important conclusion reached at the original Inquest.
