They're still getting away with MURDER!
20 YEARS ago, Blair Peach, a teacher, attended an anti-fascist demonstration In Southall, West London. During the protest, against the National Front, Blair was knocked unconscious and killed by the police. He was 33.
A quarter of a century later the Metropolitan Police are still covering up the facts of what happened on that day. There has been no public Inquiry and no police officer has ever been charged with his murder.
Two decades later the police are still covering up. In the north of Ireland, the investigation into the recent murder of civil rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson is being kept within the police force. And police remain stubbornly silent on the murder of Robert Hammill by loyalist thugs while RUC officers watched.
In England, too, a mounting series of suspicious deaths in custody have been met by a wall of silence, and only the tenacious fight of the Lawrence family forced a public inquiry into the bungled investigation of the racist murder of their son Stephen.
The Blair Peach memorial demonstration will reinforce the call for a public inquiry into his death as part of the fight to make the forces of the state accountable for their actions.