G20: No charges over Ian Tomlinson demo death

A badge administrator who was filmed blame a man to the arena during the G20 protests will not face accuse over his death.

Ian Tomlinson, 47, died afterwards actuality bent up in the clashes on 1 April 2009 in the City of London.

Director of Accessible Prosecutions Keir Starmer said there was no anticipation of confidence because experts could not accede on how Mr Tomlinson died.

Mr Tomlinson's son Paul King declared the accommodation as "outrageous".

The administrator who was filmed blame Mr Tomlinson has been called as Pc Simon Harwood from the Metropolitan Badge territorial abutment group.

Mr Starmer said there was a "sharp altercation amid the medical experts" about the account of death, which led to three post-mortem examinations actuality conducted on Mr Tomlinson.

The aboriginal assay by Dr Freddy Patel - currently beneath analysis for declared delinquency over four different post-mortem examinations - begin he died of accustomed causes affiliated to coronary avenue disease.

The additional pathologist, Dr Nat Cary, begin he died of centralized bleeding as a aftereffect of edgeless force trauma, in aggregate with cirrhosis of the liver.

The third assay agreed with the allegation of the additional test. It was conducted on account of the officer.

Mr Starmer said there were clashing differences amid the affirmation from Dr Patel and the two consecutive post-mortem examinations.

Dr Patel already faces antidotal proceedings, and could be addled off, by the General Medical Council over declared failings in his administration of four abstracted post-mortem examinations amid 2002 and 2005.

Mr Tomlinson, a bi-weekly agent who was not complex in the protests, was walking home back he was bent up in the demonstration.

The video footage showed him actuality allegedly addled by a billy and again pushed to the ground.

He was apparent affective abroad afterwards the adventure but was begin burst 100 metres abroad in Cornhill.

Mr Starmer additionally said that Mr Tomlinson was apathetic by a badge dog anon afore the clash.

Setting out the capacity of the decision, Mr Starmer said: "After a absolute and accurate analysis of the evidence, the CPS (the Crown Prosecution Service) has absitively that there is no astute anticipation of a confidence adjoin the badge administrator in catechism for any answerability arising from the amount advised and that no accuse should be brought adjoin him.

"In the face of this axiological altercation amid the experts about the account of Mr Tomlinson's death, the CPS boarded on a abundant and accurate assay of all the medical affirmation and captivated a alternation of affairs with experts in attack to resolve, or at atomic narrow, the areas of disagreement.

"This accordingly took some ample time," he added.

He added the CPS had advised advance accuse but prosecutors acquainted that they could not prove the advance essentially afflicted the bi-weekly vendor.

A allegation of accustomed assault, which does not crave affidavit of injury, could not be brought adjoin the administrator because there is a six-month time limit.

Mr Starmer said: "Common advance does not crave affidavit of injury, but it is accountable to a austere six-month time limit. That placed the CPS in a actual difficult position because inquiries were continuing at the six-month point and it would not accept been accessible to accept brought any allegation at that stage."

The CPS additionally absitively not to allegation the officer, who charcoal abeyant from duty, with delinquency in a accessible offence.

Mr Tomlinson's son Mr King said: "It's taken 16 months to get a no-charge adjoin this officer.

"The CPS are acutely acceptance the badge administrator assaulted our dad.

"We feel like it wasn't a abounding analysis from the beginning. It's been a big camouflage and they're incompetent.

"Why isn't there an advance charge? We feel actual let down, actual disappointed.

"We accustomed a charge. It acutely shows our dad actuality assaulted by a badge officer," he added.

Mr Tomlinson's ancestors adviser Jules Carey said the ancestors will accede whether they can address adjoin the decision.

He said: "The CPS accept accustomed the conduct of the administrator was unlawful.

"We now allegation to acquisition out if there has been a abridgement of will or incompetence, and bluntly there needs to be an analysis into that."

Jenny Jones, a affiliate of the Metropolitan Badge Authority, said: "It's acutely an aftereffect that satisfies absolutely cipher and everybody comes out of it badly.

"The acceptability of the badge is poor, and assurance won't be actual acceptable if accessible acumen is that the badge consistently get abroad with crimes and are never brought to justice.

"If everybody had confused a bit faster we ability accept absolutely been in the time-frame for an advance allegation to be brought," she added.

Expressing "regret" for Mr Tomlinson's family, a Metropolitan Badge spokesman, said: "There will, of course, be an delving area the facts will be heard publicly. This is important for the ancestors of Ian Tomlinson as able-bodied as Met admiral and Londoners.

"We now anticipate the IPCC's analysis address afore actuality able to anxiously accede adapted delinquency proceedings," he said.

Deborah Glass, from the Independent Badge Complaints Commission, said the affairs of Mr Tomlinson's afterlife will now be "rightly scrutinised" at an inquest.

She said: "We will accommodate a address on the officer's conduct to the Metropolitan Badge aural the abutting few days.

"The Met will allegation to accommodate us with its proposals apropos misconduct."