Police officers who had been involved with Sheku Bayoh before his death were given results from his post-mortem examination despite refusing to give statements or complete notebooks beforehand, the inquiry into his death has heard.Giving evidence for a third day, Detective Superintendent Patrick Campbell said the six officers who had been involved in the restraint of Mr Bayoh at Hayfield Road in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on the morning of May 3, 2015, were given his post-mortem results for their own wellbeing.Senior counsel to the inquiry Angela Grahame KC asked Mr Campbell if giving police officers who are witnesses the results of a post-mortem examination was something that was “normally done”. (It’s) not a normal process that I’m aware of, that we would normally tell witnesses the result of a post-mortem examination.
Family, yeah, definitely,” Mr Campbell replied.Ms Grahame then asked: “Is it part of a process if you’ve got officers involved that you would tell them, if they’re witnesses?” Mr Campbell replied: “I’m aware it has been done before in respect of deaths in custody in that respect just round about the whole welfare and wellbeing aspect of it.
But these aren’t normal events.”Mr Campbell, who was the senior investigating officer following the incident which ultimately led to the death of Mr Bayoh, said it was divisional commander Garry McEwan who raised the issue as he was “looking after the welfare of his officers” at the time. “I can’t recall exactly his rationale around it, but I think it was around the grounds of their welfare and they were obviously extremely traumatised and concerned exactly what had occurred around the restraint of Mr Bayoh,” he said.The initial post-mortem result showed the cause of Mr Bayoh’s
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