Deaths in custody: March on Downing Street

A Remembrance march to call the government’s attention to the increasing numbers of deaths in custody will take place this Saturday.

The March organised by the United Friends and Family Campaign (UFFC) will start at Trafalgar Square in a silent procession along Whitehall to Downing Street.

Black Mental Health UK states that, ‘Government data indicates that people from Britain's African Caribbean community are overrepresented in all custodial settings; race equality agencies point out that this means that the continuing increase in the numbers of deaths of people in custody will his black Britons hardest.  

The recent high profile deaths of two black men, Colin Holt, 52 and Olaseni Lewis 23 who both sustained fatal injuries in separate incidences on the 31st of August this year confirms police officers inability to deal sensitively with service users from the community.   

These two deaths are the latest in a long line of service users who have lost their lives in this way and yet to date no officers have been prosecuted for this or any other death in custody’.

Full story and march details at: Black Mental Health UK