LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Police charged over Joy Gardner death in custody

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

27 Apr 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:03:49

Description

Three police officers have been charged for the manslaughter of Jamaican woman Joy Gardner who died when detained at her Hornsey home under a deportation order in 1992. Tottenham MP Bernie Grant, Mrs Gardner’s solicitor, Djemal Dervish and Hornsey and Wood Green MP, Barbara Roche comment. Chris Chambers reports.

Contributors

Bernie Grant; Barbara Roche; Djemal Dervish; Chris Chambers

Keywords

Deaths; Deportation; London; Metropolitan Police; Policing practice; Black peoples; Legal decisions; Policemen; Manslaughter; Joy Gardner; Hornsey

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