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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Paul Britton

Family's agonising five-year wait after death of man in police custody

The family of a man who died in police custody said it was a 'key priority' for them that a new inquest into his death begins as soon as possible.

A provisional four-week 'window' for a full inquest hearing was set by a coroner for January next year. That will be more than FIVE years after 48-year-old JCB driver David Molloy's death in September, 2017, after he was arrested in Bolton.

At the time, Greater Manchester Police said officers were called to reports of a disturbance on Elgin Street in Halliwell, Bolton, at 1.40am on Sunday, September 10.

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