The 1985 Brixton Riots flashpoint

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The 2012 London riots flashpoint seems very suspicious. Recently, the 1985 riots in Brixton came up in the news – Channel 4 to be precise –
http://www.channel4.com/news/brixton-riots-cherry-groce-met-police-shooting-failure-video
when Lee Lawrence visted the very room where his mother Dorothy Groce, aka Cherry Groce, was shot, when he was 11, 29 years ago.

She was paralysed, and died in 2011 of causes a pathologist linked to the shooting.

which is 26 years later. Then there was an inquest

We have also obtained an internal inquiry report into the event, which was kept secret for 29 years. Compiled by assistant chief constable John Domaille, it concluded the decision to carry out the raid amounted to “culpable negligence”, that the shooter Inspector Douglas Lovelock displayed “professional ineptitude”, and that there was, he said, “an abuse of authority”.

Almost the same conclusions that the jury reached separately, all these years later.

Then, I read strange things.

Cherry Groce was paralysed from the waist down after being shot during a police raid on her home in 1985. The shooting sparked rioting in Brixton.

She died in April 2011 having spent 26 years in a wheelchair, but little else is known about Mrs Groce

Where was she shot btw? Ans – the shouler allegely by Insp Lovelock – which was apparently his rank at the time, since it emerged in the contemporary internal report, which has mysteriously appeared…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28129201

10 July 2014

Mrs Groce spent much of the first year following her shooting in hospital

“Our lives had been turned upside down. It was the world of the unknown,” Mr Lawrence said.

The family were eventually reunited at a bungalow in Gypsy Hill, south London.
‘Internal battle’

The children became carers for their mother.

“There was no manual. No support. No counselling. We had to roll up our sleeves.”

But he praised his mother’s determination to become rehabilitated.

“She needed to get back to being a mother – to get her children back to having as much of a normal life as possible.

“She would cook, hoover and try to do as much as she could from that wheelchair.”

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/cherry-groce-be-honoured-plaque
30/04/2012

BRIXTON LEGEND Cherry Groce, whose shooting sparked the 1985 Brixton uprising, will have a plaque erected in her memory to mark the first anniversary of her death.

The 63-year-old grandmother had spent 26 years in a wheelchair after becoming an innocent casualty in a heavy-handed police raid.

Doctors were unable to remove the bullet in her spine, which caused her great discomfort throughout the years, but she endured it with good grace, her son Lee Lawrence said.

The plaque will be unveiled on Sunday, April 29, at the family home in Normandy Road,

very odd..a blue plaque for being shot by the police…having to cook and iron and hoover from a wheelchair without help..

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/category/category/news/exclusive

March 27 2014…
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/category/category/news/exclusive

THE FAMILY of Dorothy “Cherry” Groce, who died as a result of complications from being shot and injured in a police raid, is appealing to the prime minister to get legal aid as they prepare for an inquest into the death of their mother.

The hearing, scheduled for June, was ordered after a post-mortem found that the mother-of-six, who passed away at 63 years old in April 2011, died as a result of a causal link to the injuries she suffered from being shot decades earlier.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/cherry-groce-jury-rules-police-failures-contributed-to-motherofeights-death-9598461.html
All nicely tucked up, police apologise, jury finds a total balls up

Mrs Groce died 26 years after the shooting in 2011, aged 63, from kidney failure, which a pathologist directly linked to the gunshot injury

but we also read it was a chest wound..

Mrs Groce said in her statement [made at the time, read out at the inquest 29 years later….] told how she had collapsed on the floor after being hit in the chest.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/i-shot-mother-and-sparked-brixton-riots-9576412.html
july 1 2014

is it the shoulder or the chest? miles apart. but hey, the bits of the bullet [what, a fragmenting bullet?] remained lodged….

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28248588
July 10 2014

Dr Robert Chapman said that during a post-mortem examination, he found small metal fragments from the bullet still lodged in the base of her spine.

Mrs Groce had also became more susceptible to a host of debilitating illnesses as a result of the injury, the court heard.

Mrs Groce, who was 37, was shot in the shoulder by Insp Douglas Lovelock.

July 10 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28129201

Is any of this credible?

Perhaps it’s the reporting but this doesn’t seem like normality to me. Anyone else?

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