List of cases of police brutality in the United Kingdom explained

This is a list of cases of police brutality in the United Kingdom.

National

England

Northern Ireland

Drumcree conflict

The Drumcree conflict is a dispute over a yearly parade in Portadown. Inter-communal violence has repeatedly occurred since 1873. Years in which brutality on the part of the RUC has been recorded include:

Wales

Notes and References

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  2. News: On this Day, 21 September – 1984: Maltby picket sparks violence. BBC News. 2009-03-06. 21 September 1984. 2018-10-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20181002233920/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/21/newsid_2527000/2527559.stm. live.
  3. News: Adam Gabbatt and Paul Lewis . Student protests: video shows mounted police charging London crowd | UK news | guardian.co.uk . The Guardian . UK . 26 November 2010 . 4 December 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101127212124/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/26/police-student-protests-horses-charge. 27 November 2010 . live.
  4. News: Student protests: Met under fire for charging at demonstrators . The Guardian Online . 26 November 2010 . 27 November 2010 . London . Adam . Gabbatt . Paul . Lewis . Matthew . Taylor . Rachel . Williams. https://web.archive.org/web/20101128194109/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/26/student-protests-police-under-fire. 28 November 2010 . live.
  5. News: Student protests – as they happened . The Guardian . London . 9 December 2010 . 12 December 2010 . Peter . Walker . Jonathan . Paige . 19 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140219035550/http://www.theguardian.com/education/blog/2010/dec/09/student-protests-live-coverage?INTCMP=SRCH . live .
  6. News: Does Cable Street still matter?. 30 July 2012. BBC News. 4 October 2006. Finlo Rohrer. 6 April 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080406124120/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5405598.stm. live.
  7. Web site: Alan Dearling's "Not only but also..." memoirs of Free Festivals . 2012-07-30 . 2012-03-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120314163450/http://www.enablerpublications.co.uk/pdfs/notonly2.pdf . live .
  8. News: Celia Stubbs . Lessons from the death of Blair Peach . . 14 June 2009 . 2010-03-03 . London . 2013-11-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131110010320/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jun/14/blair-peach-killing-cover-up?showAllComments=true . live .
  9. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/317775.stm Blair Peach inquiry ruled out
  10. Paul Lewis "Blair Peach killed by police at 1979 protest, Met report finds", theguardian.com, 27 April 2010
  11. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/1/newsid_2493000/2493267.stm Hippies clash with police at Stonehenge
  12. Hopkins, Nick. CPS at fault over custody deaths, The Guardian, August 12, 1999.
  13. News: Christopher Alder death: Grace Kamara exhumation date set . BBC News . 2012-02-02 . 2016-07-19 . 2020-09-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200916062235/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-16850198 . live .
  14. News: No charges for gun death officers . BBC News . 2005-10-20 . 2006-04-10 . 2006-02-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060217201204/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4359692.stm . live .
  15. Walker, Paul and Lewis, Paul. "Simon Harwood not guilty of killing Ian Tomlinson", The Guardian, 19 July 2012.
  16. Web site: PC Benjamin Monk jailed for ex-footballer's death. BBC. 29 June 2021.
  17. Web site: Media. P. A.. 2021-05-01. Met police officer dismissed for hitting vulnerable girl 'more than 30 times' with baton. 2021-05-05. The Guardian. en. 2021-05-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20210504125500/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/30/police-officer-dismissed-for-repeatedly-hitting-vulnerable-teenager-with-baton. live.
  18. News: 2021-04-30. Met PC sacked for hitting vulnerable teenage girl with baton 34 times. en-GB. BBC News. 2021-05-05. 2021-05-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20210504043304/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56950484. live.
  19. Web site: Berry. Franki. 2021-04-30. PC dismissed after vulnerable teenager hit with baton 'at least' 30 times. 2021-05-05. Newham Recorder. en-UK. 2021-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20210505215142/https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/pc-dismissed-unreasonable-force-newham-7939826. live.
  20. Web site: Israel. Simon. 2021-05-01. Met police officer dismissed for hitting vulnerable teenage girl over 30 times with a baton. 2021-05-05. Channel 4 News. en-GB. 2021-05-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20210503161047/https://www.channel4.com/news/met-police-officer-dismissed-for-hitting-vulnerable-teenage-girl-over-30-times-with-a-baton. live.
  21. Web site: Met police officer sacked after punching handcuffed black child in the face. The Guardian. 15 July 2022. Dodd. Vikram.
  22. Web site: Wiggins. Dan. 2021-10-03. Inside max security 'prison within prison' where Wayne Couzens on suicide watch. 2021-11-13. MyLondon. en.
  23. Book: Lynch, Robert . The Northern IRA and the early years of partition, 1920–1922 . 2006 . Irish Academic Press . 978-0-7165-3378-8 . 122 . The murder gang struck again after an RIC Constable, George Turner, was gunned down on the Old Lodge Road..
  24. Book: Parkinson, Alan F. . Belfast's Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s . 2004 . . . 245 . ...the shooting of a Brown Square Barracks-based RIC officer, George Turner... sparked the grisly events which were to occur in north Belfast early the next morning..
  25. Lawlor, Pearse. The Outrages: The IRA and the Ulster Special Constabulary in the Border Campaign. Mercier Press, 2011. pp.275–280
  26. Lawlor, Pearse. The Outrages: The IRA and the Ulster Special Constabulary in the Border Campaign. Mercier Press, 2011. pp.302–309
  27. http://www.policeombudsman.org/publicationsuploads/Devenny-report.pdf Findings on Devenny investigation
  28. https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1981.html Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland: 1981
  29. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch81.htm Chronology of the Conflict: 1981
  30. Web site: 2012-04-25. RFJ: Inquest finds US citizen John Hemsworth died as result of RUC assault RFJ-USA. 2021-11-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20120425232850/http://rfjusa.org/2011/06/rfj-inquest-finds-us-citizen-john-hemsworth-died-as-result-of-ruc-assault/. 2012-04-25.
  31. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/csc/reports/rituals3.htm Bryan, Fraser, Dunn. Political Rituals: Loyalist Parades in Portadown - Part 3 - Portadown and its Orange Tradition.
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  34. Web site: CAIN - Events in Drumcree - 1996 . Cain.ulst.ac.uk . 19 April 2010 . 19 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110719030735/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/develop.htm#2 . live .
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