An article said Scotland’s Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) had cleared police of wrongdoing following the death in 2015 of Sheku Bayoh, a matter now the subject of a public inquiry. Pirc investigated and reported to the Crown Office. The Lord Advocate, not Pirc, made the decision not to charge police (“‘My much-loved brother shouldn’t have died like this’”, News, 17 November, page 29).
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