Tag: inquest
South Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquest 48 years after death in police custody
Death of anti-apartheid activist in 1977 after police beat him into a coma sparked outrage across the world South African prosecutors will reopen an inquest into the death of the prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, nearly 50 years after he died in police custody. Biko, the founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, died in…
Inquest into notorious apartheid-era killings opens in South Africa
‘We want to correct the historic record’ – families of the Cradock Four, beaten and killed in 1985, seek justice 40 years on An inquest has opened into one of the most notorious killings of South Africa’s apartheid era, with a former general denying he ordered the deaths of four men who became known as…
Liam Payne cause of death confirmed as UK inquest opens
Singer Liam Payne’s medical cause of death has been confirmed in a UK inquest opening as “polytrauma”. The One Direction star died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires. Polytrauma is a term for multiple traumatic injuries which have been sustained to a person’s body and organ…