Vigil & Public Meeting

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We are inviting as many of you who can possibly make it to a vigil and a public meeting in High Wycombe on July 3rd 2009 to mark the first anniversary/’bursee’ of Habib’s death.

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The vigil will be outside High Wycombe Police Station between 3-7pm followed by a public meeting 7-9pm at the Hub behind the Union Baptist Church on Easton St – literally a few minutes walk from the Police station. We want a big crowd outside the Police station to support the family at this time.

Mussarat, his widow, their children and other members of their family will be present. We have invited speakers from other campaigns such as Janet Alder, sister of Christopher Alder who died more than 10 years ago in Hull Police station and representatives from the Sean Rigg Campaign and the newly formed United Campaign Against Police Violence as well as local speakers.

Family challenge the IPCC’s decision

Family Speaks Out

FAMILY PRESS RELEASE  25.5.09

Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah died on Thursday 3rd July 2008 during a stop and search by Police Officers on a vehicle in a car park in High Wycombe at approximately 7.15pm. He was 39yrs old and leaves behind a young family.

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On the 19th of May the family of Habib Ullah and campaign members attended the High Court for a Judicial Review Permission Hearing to challenge the IPCC’s decision which appeared to downgrade the investigation of the Police officers who had been present at the scene from a criminal investigation to a misconduct investigation. The Judicial Review brought by Habib’s widow Mussarat Habib was sought to overturn this.

An early Judicial Review was sought to question why the IPCC had not seen fit to question and interview the officers concerned under a section 9 caution, which would have meant that the officers would be required to be questioned for a criminal investigation.

‘Our parents did not come to this country to bury their children’

FAMILY STATEMENT 24.4.09

It has now been almost nine months since Habib/Paps, our brother died in High Wycombe whilst being arrested during a routine drugs search. No one knows what we have gone through during those months.

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It has been so difficult and painful for our mother, Hamida and his wife Mussarat and their three children. Mum has aged ten years and has lost weight and has suffered from depression like all of us. For her and Mussarat the loss has been difficult to understand especially as English is not their first language – their view of the Police and authority in general has irrevocably changed due to this experience. Mum was always very close to Paps whilst the rest of us were close to our dad who passed away a few years back.