Sunday April 19, 2009
Reversal of post-mortem result piles pressure on the Met
Mark Hughes
Independent
The police officer who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground before his death at the G20 protests is facing a manslaughter charge after a second post-mortem examination revealed that the newspaper vendor died of an abdominal haemorrhage and not a heart attack.
Mr Tomlinson died after being struck and pushed to the ground by a police officer. A post-mortem examination ruled that he died of a heart attack, but after amateur footage appeared on the internet showing Mr Tomlinson being thrown to the ground by a police officer minutes before his death, a further post-mortem examination was carried out.
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