CPS to review G20 death prosecution ruling

THE Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it would carry out a “thorough review” of its decision not to prosecute a police officer linked to the death of Ian Tomlinson at G20 protests in 2009 after an inquest ruled he was unlawfully killed.

Newspaper seller Tomlinson, 47, collapsed and died on the fringes of the demonstrations in central London after he was struck by a baton and pushed to the ground by Metropolitan police constable Simon Harwood.

The jury said Harwood used “excessive and unreasonable” force in hitting homeless Tomlinson with a baton and that he had posed no threat at the time.