Ferguson family ‘still mourning’ a year later

Hundreds of people observed four and a half minutes of silence yesterday to mark one year since 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot dead by a US police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

The silence began at 12.02pm, the time Mr Brown was killed, with the length of time symbolising the four and a half hours that the teenager’s body lay in the street after he was killed.

Two doves were released at the end of the commemoration.