IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Liddle Towers

Socialist Challenge No. 73, 23 November 1978 · p. 14 of the scan · 283 words

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this A BELATED comment on your editorial •Who Killed Liddle Towers?' (19 October). The police did not 'smirk with glee' when the verdict of justifiable homicide was returned at the first inquest. Homicide means that someintentionally killed Towers though in this case the jury thought i The police were not pleased with result. having "disposed of another awkward case without too much trouble', they were about to face 2½ years of publicity on could De necessary justifiable for several police officers to kill one arunk man in oract to re What the police wanted was a ver dict of 'death from misadventure tune eventual outcome of the seconc inquest), which means that Towers' death was the accidental result of hi supposed violence towards the police.

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