Candlelit vigil for Justice for Ricky Reel – New Scotland Yard, Tue 21 Oct 2014
On Tuesday twenty first October 2014, eight years in the past, I photographed the vigil 17 years after the physique of 20-year-old Ricky Reel, an Asian pupil was discovered within the River Thames, seven days after he went lacking following a racist assault in Kingston upon Thames.
In 2014 proof grew to become public that the police had didn’t take his disappearance critically and relatively than investingating and pursuing his attackers had frolicked and sources on undercover brokers investigating Ricky Reel’s household. Even after his physique was discovered they didn’t deal with him because the sufferer of a racist assault.
Even now, 25 yearsafter Ricky Reel’s dying, the Metropolitan Police are in denial over the incident, and in the previous couple of weeks have issued a press release that the household was not spied on, regardless of the household, their MP and a public inquiry having been proven the proof. In 2014 there have been 77,000 signatures calling on then Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe to formally apologise and for a sturdy unbiased and clear Public Inquiry into police spying on household campaigns. It didn’t occur.
I first met and photographed Ricky’s mom on the entrance of a protest at Downing St, preventing for justice again in 1997, and she or he continues her battle. Just lately her e book ‘Ricky Reel: Silence Is Not An Choice‘ was printed and she or he appeared on BBC Information with Tish Reel to proceed to hunt justice.
The Police Complaints Authority investigated the case in 1998 and reported that weaknesses within the police organisation had led the investigating officers to neglect the case. However their report stays unpublished, though MP John McDonnell used parliamentary privilege to disclose its findings within the Home of Commons quickly after its completion – and you may learn these within the Each day Mirror which additionally provides extra particulars of the failures.
John McDonnell was one of many audio system on the 2014 vigil, together with others together with Sukhdev Reel, Stafford Scott of Tottenham Rights, Suresh Grover of The Monitoring Group, Helen Metal, an activist who was deceived right into a two-year relationship by an undercover police officer, a speaker from the Newham Monitoring Undertaking, and Liz Fekete of the Institute of Race Relations.
You possibly can hear extra concerning the case in a YouTube video, Silence is just not an possibility which incorporates contributions from Sukhdev Reel, John McDonnell, Suresh Grover and others. The not too long ago appointed Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said he needs to take care of racism and get rid of it from the drive, and the way he offers with this case shall be an vital indicator of whether or not that is simply an empty promise.
Candlelit vigil for Justice for Ricky Reel
Democracy Camp Fenced Out – Parliament Sq., Tue 21 Oct 2014
Earlier within the day I’d known as into Parliament Sq. the place I discovered the Democracy campers had been faraway from the central grass space which was now surrounded by fencing. A couple of individuals have been nonetheless being arrested for being on the grass, however I might solely {photograph} them by the fence.
Earlier, police had taken away the blue tarpaulins that protesters had been utilizing to sit down or lie on the moist grass, resulting in the Democracy Camp gaining the identify ‘Tarpaulin Revolution’ – #tarpaulinrevolution.
One enterprising protester had gone as much as be a part of Chuchill on his plinth shortly earlier than I arrived, with a banner which learn: ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Confiscated – #tarpaulinrevolution Parliament Sq.’. Fairly to my shock he was nonetheless up there once I returned briefly after attending the vigil for Ricky Reel.
Staines march for flood sufferer Zane – Staines, Spelthorne. Tue 21 Oct 2014
Earlier than coming to London I had photographed a protest in Staines on what would have been Zane Gbangbola’s eighth birthday. The protesters demanded that Spelthorne Council check the landfill website subsequent to his house which they consider generated the hydrogen cyanide fuel that killed Zane when it was flooded earlier within the 12 months.
The protesters marched the few hundred yards from Staines Leisure Centre to the Spelthorne Council officers handy in a 38 Levels petition. Council officers got here to take the petition and specific sympathy with Zane’s mother and father, each of who have been additionally affected by the fuel, his father being left a paraplegic.
To this point investigations have failed to offer a conclusive reply for the reason for Zane’s dying, with the pathologist later blaming carbon monoxide from a petrol-driven pump used to clear floodwater from the home. However his mother and father say it was by no means used inside the home. Surrey Police are reported to have submitted info concerning the defective pump and the rent firm which provided it to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Staines march for flood sufferer Zane
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