France said he expected the IOPC to investigate “the whole range of what happened” and his force was committed to acting on the watchdog’s findings. <\/p>\n
He added: “The officers who initially interacted with Henry are the same officers who started the CPR, who fought to save his life and I have no doubt of the extensive impact on the officers.”<\/p>\n
The IOPC said: “Our thoughts and sympathies are with Henry Nowak’s family and everyone affected by his death.<\/p>\n
“We are independently investigating the contact Hampshire and Isle of Wight officers had with Mr Nowak prior to his death on 4 December, including the use of handcuffs by officers and the first aid provided.<\/p>\n
“Our investigation, which began following a mandatory referral from the force, remains ongoing and the officers involved are currently being treated as witnesses.”<\/p>\n
Crime and Policing Minister Sarah Jones said: “This is a truly horrific case. <\/p>\n
“All our thoughts are with Henry’s family and friends and what they are going through. <\/p>\n
“We know that no verdict can undo the pain, but I hope today brings some small measure of justice.<\/p>\n
“It is right that an IOPC investigation has been launched into the actions of the police to get to the truth.”<\/p>\n
Digwa will be sentenced at Southampton Crown Court on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France said he expected the IOPC to investigate “the whole range of what happened” and his force was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}