“What you would see today is regardless of the niceties the important thing is whoever it’s going to be, somebody needs to talk to the family as quickly as possible and we would certainly do that rather than stand on ceremony and make a mess of it.<\/p>\n
He admitted officers had been “unnecessarily hesitant” in speaking to relatives but claimed that Duggan’s “complicated extended family” had made this difficult.<\/p>\n
“It sounds like I’m offering excuses and I don’t mean to, ” he added. “We didn’t do it as well as we should do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Last week an inquest found that the\u00a029-year-old \u00a0was\u00a0killed lawfully, by a majority of 8 to 2. The verdict has widely been regarded as \u00a0an\u00a0‘unfair attempt to protect police’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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