Mark Duggan

Drug Dealer Who Sold Gun To Mark Duggan Jailed

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.02.2013 | UK

A drug dealer who supplied a gun to Mark Duggan minutes before his fatal shooting by police sparked the 2011 summer riots, was jailed for a total of 1...

Kevin Hutchinson-Foster Found Guilty Of Supplying Gun To Mark Duggan

PA | Posted 31.01.2013 | UK

Kevin Hutchinson-Foster was today found guilty at the Old Bailey of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police sparked riots in Lo...

Bring Back the Ronseal Test

Dave Clements | Posted 28.12.2012 | UK
Dave Clements

I'm sure there are other similar wood-treatment products out there but only the Ronseal test will get us any closer to making sure that riots, housing associations and charities do what they say on the tin.

'It Feels Like This Has Been The Mark Duggan Trial '

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.10.2012 | UK

A jury has failed to reach a verdict in the case of a man accused of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police sparked last year'...

Gun 'Belonging To Mark Duggan' Was Found Metres For Shooting Site

PA | Posted 27.09.2012 | UK

A firearms officer told a court of how he found the gun that allegedly belonged to Mark Duggan discarded in bushes about "five metres away" from where...

An 'Oh F**k Moment'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.09.2012 | UK

The police marksman who shot Mark Duggan has described the seconds before he opened fire as an "Oh f*** moment". Duggan, 29, whose death sparked wi...

Mark Duggan 'Raised Gun' At Police Before Shooting

PA | Posted 20.09.2012 | UK

Armed police shot Mark Duggan as he raised a gun he had been hiding under his jacket when they swooped on a taxi he was in, a court has heard. Dugg...

'Mark Duggan Handed Gun 15 Minutes Before He Was Shot'

PA | Posted 18.09.2012 | UK

A handgun was passed to Mark Duggan just 15 minutes before he was shot dead by armed police, sparking the riots that blighted the country last August,...

Journalists Exposed for Their Biased Coverage of Riots

Deborah Hobson | Posted 22.10.2012 | UK
Deborah Hobson

News outlets need to be held to account for their coverage of the headline-hitting English riots, a new report has argued.

The Riots: One Year On

The Cambridge Union Society | Posted 12.10.2012 | UK Politics
The Cambridge Union Society

Young people are still unemployed, funding is still being withdrawn from the poorest and most vulnerable communities in society; those at the bottom of our society are still made to feel worthless and hopeless, so the incentive and willingness to riot remains.

BBC Will Not Have To Hand Over Mark Duggan Footage

Posted 09.08.2012 | UK

The BBC will not have to hand over footage of the aftermath of the shooting of Mark Duggan, the man whose killing sparked the London riots. Father...

Felicity A Morse

The Hackney Heroine: 'Nothing's Changed'

HuffingtonPost.com | Felicity A Morse | Posted 04.08.2012 | UK

Pauline Pearce, dubbed the 'Hackney Heroine', shot to fame after footage of her berating rioters was watched by thousands on Youtube. The 46-year-...

One Family's Search For The Truth About Shooting Which Sparked London Riots

PA | Posted 03.08.2012 | UK

Saturday marks a year since father-of-four Mark Duggan was shot dead by police after they stopped the cab in which he was travelling. His family ar...

Young People Riots 'Could Happen Again This Year'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 03.08.2012 | UK

More than one in four young people believe that the riots seen last summer could be repeated this year, a survey has found. It reveals that many yo...

PICTURES: How Areas In London Affected By Riots Have Moved On

PA | Posted 29.07.2012 | UK

This week will mark a year since the police shooting of Mark Duggan, which was followed by a wave of rioting, looting and arson that spread across the...

Mark Duggan: New Footage Of Shooting That Sparked London Riots Emerges

PA | Posted 26.04.2012 | UK

New footage has emerged of the aftermath of the police shooting that triggered last summer's riots. Mark Duggan was killed during a pre-planned ope...

The Next Mayor of London Must Not Fail the Black Communities

Kanja Ibrahim Sesay | Posted 16.06.2012 | UK Politics
Kanja Ibrahim Sesay

The stakes are high regarding the forthcoming elections for London Mayor on 3 May. London's black communities and other ethnic minority Londoners make up considerably more than a third. London sets the pace and agenda for the way the whole country responds to our needs and concerns. Our communities feel they are being failed. The Met is being rocked by at least 13 officers being referred to the IPCC for racism. This follows on the heels of the reports that black men were 29 times more likely to be stopped under Section 60 powers than their white counterparts.

Scandalous Police Misbehaviour is Nothing New - Something Needs to Change

Emanuel Stoakes | Posted 03.06.2012 | UK Politics
Emanuel Stoakes

The sickening racism that appears to have been directed at a young black man arrested by police in London, recorded on his mobile phone and published by the Guardian days ago should have rocked the British media.

Nirpal Dhaliwal on the London Black Community: You Got it All Wrong

Funmi Olutoye | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK
Funmi Olutoye

Oh how I can hear the rapturous applause of Nick Griffin and his fascist party at the sight of Nirpal Dhaliwal's unfounded allegative article against the black community. I think it's a shame when a journalist uses the power in his fingertips to generalise and demonise a whole section of society.

Mark Duggan Inquest: IPCC Urges Law Change For Police Shootings

Sara C Nelson/ PA | Posted 29.03.2012 | UK

Changes must be made to a law that is blocking the inquest into the shooting of a man whose death led to a wave of rioting last summer, says the polic...

Police Apologise To Mark Duggan Family

Huffington Post UK / PA | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK

The mother of Mark Duggan, whose shooting by police triggered last summer's riots, was given false hope that her son was alive after officers failed t...

'Christmas Came Early In August' - MPs Blame Police For Scale Of The Riots

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 17.02.2012 | UK Politics

MPs have criticised the police's handling of the riots in England in August, suggesting they should have mobilised more officers onto the streets soon...

IPCC Admits 'Mistake' In Reporting Of Mark Duggan Shooting

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK

The lead Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigator into the shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan has admitted that the release of in...

Mark Duggan's Death Still Unclear Despite Guardian Report, Says IPCC

PA | Posted 19.01.2012 | UK

An investigation into the death of Mark Duggan who was shot dead by police, triggering a series of riots across the country, has still to establish th...

Mark Duggan Unarmed: Reports Claim Man Wasn't Carrying Gun

PA | Posted 19.01.2012 | UK

An investigation into the death of Mark Duggan who was shot dead by police, triggering a series of riots across the country, has found no forensic evi...