LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Death of Joy Gardner

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

TX Date

2 Aug 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:02:15

Description

Havovi Todd reports on calls for a public not just police inquiry into the death last night of Jamaican woman Joy Gardner after a struggle with police in her Hornsey, North London home as they tried to serve a deportation order left her in a coma. With Police Complaints Authority spokesman William McCall, Tottenham MP Bernie Grant and Home Secretary Michael Howard on inquiry. And Joy’s mother Myrna Simpson saying the police were to heavy-handed.

Contributors

Michael Howard; Bernie Grant; Myrna Simpson; William McCall; Havovi Todd

Keywords

Death; Interethnic relations; Police; Policing practice; Black peoples; Inquests; Public inquiries; Accidental death; Joy Gardner; Police Complaints Authority

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