Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2011 13:45:42 GMT
Mark Duggan
The father-of-four was shot and killed last Thursday evening in an exchange of fire between him and officers from Scotland Yard's Operation Trident, who specialise in tackling black-on-black gun crime.
Duggan's fiance Semone Wilson has not yet told their children that their father is dead.
Wilson and Duggan, both 29, had been a couple since they were 17 and they have two sons together aged 10 and seven, and a baby girl. Duggan also had a fourth child from another relationship.
"Mark was a good dad," Miss Wilson, a student at Middlesex University, told the Daily Mail. "He loved his kids dearly. He idolised them."
Duggan's friends and family say that Duggan was unarmed when he was shot. It was Duggan's death that sparked the riots in Tottenham at the weekend.
The 29-year-old was shot dead by armed officers as he travelled in a minicab in Tottenham on Thursday. His death was the trigger for riots across north London and beyond.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission claimed Mr Duggan had fired at police first. An officer was hit in the chest but was saved when the bullet lodged in his police radio.
However, initial tests suggest the bullet was a police issue hollow-nosed shell, raising doubts about the initial claims that the armed officer only returned fire after Mr Duggan started shooting first.
The dead man’s fiancée, Semone Wilson, 29, the mother of three of his four children, said: ‘As soon as this came out in the news, the IPCC called me and said it had not been confirmed. But if it is true, trust me, the police are going to get it. We will be suing them because they effectively executed him.’
One witness, a 20-year-old who works near the scene of the shooting, said: ‘I saw about six unmarked police cars cornering a people carrier near a bus stop right outside Tottenham Hale station.
‘It looked like they had been chasing the car. I heard the police shout something like, “Don’t move” and I saw them drag the driver out of the car. I don’t know if they dragged the guy out in the passenger seat – he was the one who got shot.
‘About three or four police officers had both men pinned on the ground at gunpoint. They were really big guns and then I heard four loud shots.’
Read more: www.metro.co.uk/news/871769-mark-duggan-family-will-sue-if-bullet-in-radio-was-police-issue#ixzz1UXa6kkZT
I am sure the family are outraged with the behaviour of the rioters who are looting shops, burnining property, which will serve no purpose to the family or themselves, only costing tax payers more of there measley wages.
The father-of-four was shot and killed last Thursday evening in an exchange of fire between him and officers from Scotland Yard's Operation Trident, who specialise in tackling black-on-black gun crime.
Duggan's fiance Semone Wilson has not yet told their children that their father is dead.
Wilson and Duggan, both 29, had been a couple since they were 17 and they have two sons together aged 10 and seven, and a baby girl. Duggan also had a fourth child from another relationship.
"Mark was a good dad," Miss Wilson, a student at Middlesex University, told the Daily Mail. "He loved his kids dearly. He idolised them."
Duggan's friends and family say that Duggan was unarmed when he was shot. It was Duggan's death that sparked the riots in Tottenham at the weekend.
The 29-year-old was shot dead by armed officers as he travelled in a minicab in Tottenham on Thursday. His death was the trigger for riots across north London and beyond.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission claimed Mr Duggan had fired at police first. An officer was hit in the chest but was saved when the bullet lodged in his police radio.
However, initial tests suggest the bullet was a police issue hollow-nosed shell, raising doubts about the initial claims that the armed officer only returned fire after Mr Duggan started shooting first.
The dead man’s fiancée, Semone Wilson, 29, the mother of three of his four children, said: ‘As soon as this came out in the news, the IPCC called me and said it had not been confirmed. But if it is true, trust me, the police are going to get it. We will be suing them because they effectively executed him.’
One witness, a 20-year-old who works near the scene of the shooting, said: ‘I saw about six unmarked police cars cornering a people carrier near a bus stop right outside Tottenham Hale station.
‘It looked like they had been chasing the car. I heard the police shout something like, “Don’t move” and I saw them drag the driver out of the car. I don’t know if they dragged the guy out in the passenger seat – he was the one who got shot.
‘About three or four police officers had both men pinned on the ground at gunpoint. They were really big guns and then I heard four loud shots.’
Read more: www.metro.co.uk/news/871769-mark-duggan-family-will-sue-if-bullet-in-radio-was-police-issue#ixzz1UXa6kkZT
I am sure the family are outraged with the behaviour of the rioters who are looting shops, burnining property, which will serve no purpose to the family or themselves, only costing tax payers more of there measley wages.
