Police officers who had been involved with Sheku Bayoh before his death were given results from his post-mortem examination despite refusing to give statements or complete notebooks beforehand, the inquiry into his death has heard.
Giving evidence for a third day, Detective Superintendent Patrick Campbell said the six officers who had been involved in the restraint of Mr Bayoh at Hayfield Road in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on the morning of May 3, 2015, were given his post-mortem results for their own wellbeing.
Senior counsel to the inquiry Angela Grahame KC asked Mr Campbell if giving police officers who are witnesses the results of a post-mortem examination was something that was “normally done”. (It’s) not a normal process that I’m aware of, that we would normally tell witnesses the result of a post-mortem examination. Family, yeah, definitely,” Mr Campbell replied.
