Do not carry pieces of furniture in the vicinity of these people
Not an original post from me - just an extract from a current story that left me shaking my head in disbelief ...
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Police Shooting Of Decorator 'Unlawful'
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A man shot by police while carrying a table leg which was mistaken for a gun was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury has ruled.
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Harry Stanley, 46, from Hackney, east London, was shot in the head and hand by police marksmen in September 1999.Two Metropolitan Police officers fired the shots after mistakenly being informed that Mr Stanley was an Irishman with a sawn-off shotgun.
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The father-of-three was in fact Scottish and was carrying a coffee table leg which had just been repaired by his brother Peter.
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He was shot as he left the Alexandra pub in Hackney.
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The jury of six women and four men at St Pancras Coroner's Court took around seven hours to reach their verdict at the end of a two-week inquest.
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It was the second to have taken place into Mr Stanley's death.
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The open verdict recorded at the end of the original inquest was later quashed by the High Court.
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