Chris Grayling MP: Grant Legal Aid To The Family Of Cherry Groce For Her Inquest
I’ve just signed this petition at Change.org. Please sign and share it, the cause is a big and important one.
We the family of Cherry Groce the innocent mother who was shot and paralysed by the police in 1985. The shooting sparked the Brixton riots. To this day no one has been held responsible for what happened to her.
Independent reports state that the events in 1985 were a significant contributory factor in our mothers death in 2011. An inquest is being held in June. But we’ve been denied legal aid, without it we can’t afford a lawyer to represent us at the inquest and ask questions of the police. That’s why we would like your support in the appeal for our fight for legal aid.
Without legal aid we will be financially excluded from participating, which means we are not able to adequately and effectively take part in such a complex case and it is unfair to expect us to do so whilst the other three interested parties are being publicly funded!
Following the request of a revealing report we have received an apology from the police which comes 28 years after the shooting (and is still yet to be made in public).
One minute of your time will bring us closer to the answers we have been waiting 29 years for.
Please sign to show your support in the fight for legal aid which will allow us a fair inquest.
Thank you
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I,m not sure why you need a lawyer to ask the questions, my experience of being on the jury at the inquest is that the jury can ask questions unlike in a criminal case, and the coroner asked the people who were part of the family to ask questions as well.
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It was my pleasure to sign your petition. It breaks my heart to think what happened to your mother and the way police think they can get away with it. I truly hope you get the representation that you should have and has already been afforded to the accused. All the best, Kim
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