The Latest Breaking News from Sheku Bayoh

A damning report published in March found the UK’s largest police force rife with ill-treatment of women, ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ officers. Louise Casey found London’s Metropolitan Police to be “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic”, and recommended radical reform – or breaking up the Met.

It opens in Edinburgh on Saturday.

Chief Superintendent Nicola Shepherd told the inquiry that she recognised that the fact that Sheku Bayoh was black and a Muslim could have potential to raise concern in those communities.

An inquiry into the circumstances around Mr Bayoh’s death is continuing.

Mr Bayoh’s former partner used social media to post her concerns about how she had found out about the death, the inquiry heard.

A FORMER high-ranking detective has told an inquiry that telling police officers the results of Sheku Bayoh’s post-mortem before they gave…

Retired detective chief inspector Keith Hardie, 60, told the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry he would ‘absolutely’ have concerns about sharing test results.

Mr Bayoh, 31, had been seen brandishing a knife in public in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in May 2015 before being restrained by six police officers in the town’s Hayfield Road.

The 31-year-old died after being restrained by police officers in Kirkcaldy in May 2015.

DS Campbell told the inquiry six officers involved in the restraint of Sheku Bayoh in 2015 were given his post-mortem results for their own wellbeing.

Sheku Bayoh died in May 2015.