police face charges over the death of Sheku Bayoh. The Sunday Mail can reveal Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain signed off a Victim’s Right to Review (VRR) on behalf of the tragic dad’s family after her predecessor James Wolffe failed to act.
The document – penned in 2019 before she took over at the helm of the Crown Office – highlights a litany of failings in the decision not to prosecute the officers involved and also Police Scotland as an institution.
Father-of-two Sheku was found to have 23 injuries including a broken rib and gashes to his head after he was restrained by up to nine officers in the street in Kirkcaldy in 2015.The death of the 31-year-old gas engineer, who was originally from Sierra Leone but had lived in Fife since the 1990s,.
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