Death Of Patrick Quinn And The Case Of Malcolm Kennedy

EDM number 184 in 1994-95, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 02/12/1994.

That this House welcomes the publication of the pamphlet 'Who Killed Patrick Quinn? The Framing of Malcolm Kennedy'; notes that the Metropolitan Police adopted a working assumption that Mr Kennedy killed Mr Quinn in a cell in Hammersmith police station on 24th December 1990, that the police did not conduct a thorough criminal investigation into Mr Quinn's death and failed to comply with the police complaints procedure; also notes that the Crown Prosecution Service accepted the police's assumption that Mr Kennedy was guilty, failed in their duty to independently examine the evidence, did not disclose evidence to the defence and hindered Mr Kennedy's defence investigation; notes that central prosecution witness, PC Paul Giles, who arrested Mr Quinn, did not give evidence in Mr Kennedy's February to May 1994 trial; and further notes that ex-Metropolitan Police sergeant, Edward Henery, another key prosecution witness, resigned in 1991 shortly after Mr Kennedy's conviction for murder in September 1991 with 17 outstanding disciplinary charges, and refused to answer questions about his disciplinary record in Mr Kennedy's 1994 trial which caused the trial judge, Mr Justice Swinton Thomas, to fine him for contempt of court; and believes that Mr Kennedy was failed by the criminal justice system, his trial amounted to an abuse of process and his conviction for the manslaughter of Mr Quinn is unsafe.

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