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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

Dozens of families join plan for class action over UK police contact deaths

Group of people marching with placards with one person holding a wreath of flowers
Families have campaigned for justice over deaths in police custody for years. Photograph: People’s Tribunal on Police Killings

More than 100 relatives of people who have died after contact with the police in the UK since 1971 have joined plans for a class action lawsuit in pursuit of compensation and justice.

The plan for group legal action was announced at the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings, a two-day event in which bereaved families presented evidence to a panel of international experts on how their relatives died and the long-term impact this has had on them.

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