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.

Campaign Timeline: 2008-09

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July 3rd 2008 – Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah died on Thursday 3rd July during a stop and search by Police Officers on a vehicle in a car park in High Wycombe at approximately 7.15pm:

July 4th – Initial autopsy carried out by Thames Valley Police without IPCC being notified

July 9th - Habib’s Funeral in Slough

July 11th – First vigil outside High Wycombe Police Station

July 12th – Second vigil in Frogmoor/High Wycombe Town Centre

July – Campaign for Justice for Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah set up