Appendix 1
Police Officers
Name | Rank | Station | Role |
Bleakley, Peter | PS | Hammersmith |
Patrick Quinn's custody officer. Present with Dell and O'Donnell at scene of crime after Henery discovered body. |
Carr, Michael | PC | Fulham |
Attended Malcolm Kennedy arrest with Mellor. |
Dell, Michael | Ins | Hammersmith |
Duty inspector. Present with Bleakley and O'Donnell at scene of crime after Henery discovered Quinn's body. |
Giles, Paul | PC | Hammersmith |
Patrick Quinn's arresting officer. Suffered mental illness and did not give evidence in second retrial. |
Hackett | DSup |
Area 6 Major Investigations Team |
Present in station on morning of 24 December 1990. |
Henery, Edward | PS | Fulham |
Malcolm Kennedy's custody officer. Discovered Quinn's body. Resigned from the Met. with 17 outstanding disciplinary charges. Fined £500 for contempt of court following second retrial. |
Ives, Jeffery | PC | Fulham |
Assisted Wheatley to prepare for murder investigation. |
Lloyd | DSupt | MS16 (CIB) |
Present in station on morning of 24 December 1990. |
McAleenan, Paul | DS | Hammersmith |
Swinburne's assistant in murder investigation. Interrupted the first retrial with discovery of CAD printout. |
Matthews, Roger | DSupt |
Area 6 Major Investigations Team |
Present in station on morning of 24 December 1990. |
Mellor, Anthony | PC | Hammersmith |
Malcolm Kennedy's arresting officer. |
Millar, Michael | PC | Fulham |
Drove Northway home at start of late relief. Dry cleaned trousers before handing them in after the Christmas break. |
Northway, James | PC | Hammersmith |
Injured on duty during afternoon shift and driven home by Millar and Trinkwon. |
O'Donnell, John | PS | Hammersmith |
Section officer. Present with Bleakley and Dell at scene of crime after Henery discovered Quinn's body. |
O'Hagan, Andrew | PC | Hammersmith |
CAD operator. Attended scene of crime and kept log of everybody entering Tank cell. Log missing. |
Suthers, Julian | DC | Hammersmith |
Assisted prepare for murder investigation. Interviewed three prisoners about incident. |
Swinburne, Philip | DI | Hammersmith | Officer in case. |
Trinkwon, Peter Anthony (?) | PC | Hammersmith |
First officer to deal with Quinn. Assisted Giles with arrest.. |
Weedon, John | PC | Hammersmith |
Exhibits officer for murder investigation. |
Welsh, Emlyn | PC | Hammersmith | PC Giles' partner. |
Wheatley, Sharon | DC | Fulham |
Took immediate charge of the situation after Henery's discovery of Quinn's body. |
Wright, Tom | Supt | Thames Valley |
Complaint investigation officer appointed by PCA. |
Appendix 2
Chronology of events
1990 | |
23 December | Patrick Quinn arrested for being drunk and incapable. |
24 December | Malcolm Kennedy arrested for being drunk and incapable. Kennedy charged with Quinn's murder. |
1991 | |
2 September | First trial starts at Old Bailey. |
20 September | Kennedy convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
30 October | Kennedy's letter of complaint following his murder conviction referred to the Police Complaints Authority. |
1992 | |
24 February | Supt. Tom Wright of Thames Valley police commences PCA supervised investigation into Kennedy's complaint. |
27 April | World in Action programme, "Time to kill", broadcast. |
20 May | Kennedy's grounds of appeal against conviction lodged. |
9 September | PCA interim statement into Kennedy's complaint. |
1993 | |
8 February | Kennedy's appeal against murder conviction commences at Court of Appeal. |
19 February | Court of appeal quashes Kennedy's conviction and orders a retrial. He is refused bail. |
25 June | Kennedy granted bail pending retrial. |
6 September | First retrial commences at Old Bailey. |
20 September | First retrial abandoned. |
1994 | |
21 February | Second Old Bailey retrial commences. CPS informs defence PC Giles not giving evidence. |
6 May | Kennedy convicted of manslaughter and receives nine year prison sentence. |
16 May | Ex-sergeant Edward Henery fined £500 for contempt of court. |
13 June | Kennedy's grounds of appeal against conviction lodged. |
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