Attempts to give Sheku Bayoh CPR 'may have been hindered by handcuffs'

A placard outside Capital House in Edinburgh at the start of a public inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh. Bayoh died in May 2015 after he was restrained by officers responding to a call in Kirkcaldy, Fife.Picture date: Tuesday May 10, 2022. PA Photo.

A MEDIC who treated Sheku Bayoh in hospital after his arrest has said the fact he was in handcuffs may have hindered earlier attempts to perform CPR on him.

Dr Gillian Pickering was in charge of the A&E team which tried to ­resuscitate Bayoh, 31, at Victoria Hospital in Fife on the morning of May 3 2015.