Engles to soon ban table legs.
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their own dirt. Anyone caught with a table leg will be shot.........
Officers held over shooting death
Two police officers have been arrested on suspicion of murder today
almost six years after they shot dead a painter and decorator who was
mistakenly thought to be carrying a sawn-off shotgun.
Chief Inspector Neil Sharman, 42, and Pc Kevin Fagan, 38, were arrested
by Surrey Police in connection with the death of 46-year-old Harry Stanley.
They were held on suspicion of murder, gross negligence, manslaughter
and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, before being released
on bail pending further inquiries.
Mr Stanley, from Hackney, east London, was shot in the head and hand on
September 22, 1999, after a table leg he was carrying in a bag was
mistaken for a gun.
Surrey Police launched a review of the investigation into his death last
year after a second inquest concluded that the father-of-three had been
unlawfully killed.
That verdict was quashed by a High Court judge last month, but the force
revealed that new forensic evidence had been discovered which had led to
the arrests.
In a statement issued on behalf of Mr Stanley's family, Daniel Machover
from Hickman and Rose Solicitors said: "The family has noted today's
development and is awaiting an early decision on criminal charges. They
are again calling for the officers to be suspended from all duties."
However, rank-and-file police leaders criticised the treatment of Mr
Sharman and Pc Fagan, with Glen Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan
Police Federation, expressing "disgust" at the way the case had been
handled.
"The way that the Harry Stanley case is being conducted goes from bad to
appalling," he said.
Police Federation chairwoman Jan Berry said it was "astounding and
completely wrong" that the matter still had not been resolved".