The partner of Sheku Bayoh was told that “a black male had been found dead”, according to police evidence read out at an inquiry investigating the his death.
A statement written by Ds Dursley, in which he described how the death message was relayed to Mr Bayoh’s partner, Collette Bell, was read out to the inquiry. It said: “Between me and DI Colin Robson, we delegated Wayne Parker to tell Collette Bell words to the effect that ‘a black male had been found dead’ and we suspected that it may be her partner.”
A section of Ms Bell’s statement to police at the time was read out to the inquiry in which she said: “The officers said there’s no easy way of saying this I’m just going to say it. There’s been a body found that matches your partner’s description and we think it’s Shek.” However, in relation to Ms Bell’s comments about officers telling her “a passer-by had found Sheku dead”, he said: “That certainly was never relayed to her at any point.” The inquiry heard more of Ms Bell’s statement read out in which she said officers asked her to give a statement because they were looking for someone in relation to Mr Bayoh’s death.
Dc Mitchell replied: “It was a direction from our supervisors that we weren’t to mention anything to do with the police contact until it was properly investigated.” When asked about what the reason was for retaining that information, Dc Mitchell added: “It was still being investigated at that point."
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