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The little known scandal of deaths in UK police, prison and psychiatric custody are exposed by affected families.

Between 1969 and 1999 over one thousand people died in police custody alone, not counting deaths in prison and psychiatric institutions. No one has ever been convicted for any of these deaths.

In October 2004 the then Home Office Minister, Hazel Blears commenting on a Police Complaints Authority (PCA) report noting a reduction in such deaths said, “There was an encouraging reduction in the number of deaths of people from minority ethnic communities from 22 in 2002/03 to 10 in 2003/04.

She went on to say; “The PCA report found that while there are grounds for concern about some aspects surrounding the general treatment of detainees, there is little evidence that this concern can be attributed to racist attitudes or behaviour.”

These words however, were of little comfort to the dozens of families who have lost relatives in these circumstances.

Footage courtesy of Migrant Media and Filmmaker in a Ruksack and Jon Delsur.

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