The family of Sheku Bayoh has accused Scotland’s police and prosecutors of “a desperate final act of sabotage” after the chair of the inquiry into his death in custody resigned.
At a hastily convened press conference after Lord Bracadale’s unexpected resignation on Tuesday, Bayoh’s family said the former high court judge had been “forced out” by what they called the “unholy trinity” of the solicitor general, Scotland’s deputy chief prosecutor and the chief constable of Police Scotland, led by the Scottish Police Federation, which represents the officers allegedly involved in his death.
