Summary
ONE day, there will be a permanent memorial on the spot where Harry Stanley was shot dead by two police officers as he walked home from a pub carrying a table leg. For now, his widow Irene has to tie flowers to a concrete bollard on the cracked pavement of an anonymous London street to mark where he fell.
On a nearby wall, the words Justice For Harry Stanley are visible but fading They were scrawled on the wall soon after the 46-year- old Scot died on 22 September 1999 - but it was only last week that Irene Stanley felt that she truly did have justice for her husband.See the full content of this document
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The Long Fight to Win Justice for Harry
An inquest ruled last Friday that Mr Stanley was unlawfully killed by the two officers - PC Kevin Fagan and Inspector Neil Sharman - who mistook the table leg for a sawn-off shotgun. The suspension of the two officers in the wake of the inquest verdict has led to a security crisis in London with armed police threatening to stop working in support...
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