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This page contains press release 87/04, with the MPA response to the Roger Sylvester Inquest judicial review.
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MPA response to Roger Sylvester Inquest judicial review
87/04
26 November 2004
Commenting on Mr. Justice Collins’s judgment today which quashed the verdict reached by the Roger Sylvester Inquest, Len Duvall, Chair of the MPA, said:
“This has been an extremely lengthy and painful process for all the parties involved.
“In March this year the MPA decided to pay the legal costs of Roger Sylvester’s family and the eight MPS officers for the judicial review into the verdict of unlawful killing reached by the inquest into the circumstances surrounding his death.
“This decision was taken to be very clear that the MPA was being even-handed in our treatment of both the Sylvester family and the eight police officers involved in the case in their respective needs for a definitive legal ruling on these important questions.
“The MPA hopes that this matter can now be drawn to a conclusion by this judicial review in the interests of both the family and officers.”
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