As I depressingly predicted yesterday, the Crown Prosecution Service has just ruled that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson, attacked by police as he walked home on the day of the G20 riots last year. Not just that, but there is, we are told, “no case to answer”. Shocking but unsurprising.
The unaccountability of the police remains one of the biggest disgraces in this country. Will the coalition government do anything about it? Like with justice for Jean Charles de Menezes and Ian Tomlinson, I wouldn’t hold your breath.