AT 10.30pm on Wednesday i August, Sarwan Singh Grewal phoned for a taxi from • public photie box London's Southall. It was the last phone call he was ever to make. Three hours later Sarwan Singh was lying dead in Southall police station.
The police say he choked on his orn vomit. But bruises found on Sarwan Singh's body suggest that the death that simple, demands are growing in Southall for a public enquiry into the mysterious What is known is that after making the Sarwan arrested by the police for being drunk and disorderly. According to his wife, the police say they because they saw him putting telephone receiver down the wrong What happened after that, no-one zay ever know exactly. The police say Sarwan Singh died at 1.30am, in the early hours of Thursday morning. What they have yet to explain is why it took them a further two hours victim's wife.
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doctor, Mangat, finally did examine the body be noted bruises on the elbow and shin, and an head. The doctor hes since said that assault.
Sarwan Singh has lived 13 years in Britain. According to friends he was a quiet, intelligent man. He was known to the police beause he had a drinking problem, but he had never shown any signs of violence and the police were aware of his history. Sarwan Singh A 30-strong picket was held on 18 August outside Southall police station in support of the demand for & public enquiry into the circumstances of hi Already support for this cal the National Association of Asian Youth, Southall the ComSocialist Workers International Marxist One fact, however, is clear without any enquiry - if Sarwan Singh had not been arrested he would be alive the Tures, Southall petenc Om/72 THE