David Oluwale, victim of police harassment, to be remembered by blue plaque in Leeds

David Oluwale, who was found dead in the River Aire near Leeds in 1969. Photograph: PA

A blue plaque is to be unveiled in Leeds commemorating David Oluwale, a British-Nigerian man who died in 1969 after being harassed by police.

The plaque will be on Leeds Bridge, close to where Oluwale was last seen alive, being chased by Sgt Kenneth Kitching and Insp Geoffrey Ellerker. His body was found two weeks later about a mile away in the River Aire, which flows under the bridge.