sustained numerous injuries...
Huyton on 21 June.
Since that date, Kelly's life.
stretching back for months.
This article is taken from the Liverpool Echo.
THE KELLY family are not the sort you would expect to be in OUCU conflict with the police.
None of them has ever trouble, and Bobby, who is two years younger than Jimmy, has a daughter and son-in-law in the Merseyside police force. They are, neighbours in Huyton say, "respectable people'.
Jimmy Kelly was one of six brothers and two sisters. He lived with his mother, and according to his sister-inlaw, Martha, his mum could not have had a better nurse.
He did the cooking, the washing, the housework, the shopping and when a left her unable to walk he bought his own mattress down to the living room in case she needed him during the night.
Martha Kelly held the purse strings. Jimmy security in and she would allow him a little each week for a drink and his tobacco. Often pocket money would be used to buy a present.
Joke For days on end he would not venture out of speak anyone. 'She used to joke, did his mother, that he was as much of a companion as tailor's dummy,?
Lilly, his niece.
When he did go out for a drink he would make a night of it. He enjoyed a sing-song and would invariably be called upon to do a turn during the evening at the pub.
Not one member of his closely-knit family 121l him ever 'having words' *...Immediately prior to his death, Mr Kelly had I find his injuries consistent with a severe beating — pathologist's report on Jimmy Kelly, aged 53, who died in police custody in This family have been battling to discover the facts about the last few hoars of Jimmy An action committee has collected thousands of signatures to a petition calling for a public inquiry, and a dossier it is compiling details cases of police brutality Jimmy Kelly.
anyone, let alone a fight.
And is the family's collective shock that has united them into the determined which the police must now reckon. nicely furnished living room of Eddie his eldest brother, a factory become the nerve centre of their efforts. Several of the family were directly involved on the night Jimmy's death and in the subsequent events.
And altogether they sort their way through the legal jargon and official procedures InaT have become an important part of the case.
On the night he died, Jimmy had gone out to celebrate the homecoming of his 'kid' brother Billy, who is 39, from Australia. They had about eight pints each and a few tots of whisky at the Oak Tree. At the 'oi the Jimmy was chatting outside and Billy decided he would make the ten minute walk home on his own and leave his brother to follow.
It was the last time he saw him alive.
Billy, say other members of the : family, has been the most badly affected by Jimmy's death. He hes cancelled plans return to Australia:
'He feels he is partly responsible', says Martha, Eddie's wife. 'We do not think so, but the worry has turned his hair grey. I've that happen overnight but it has with Allr Billy, and he can't sleep.' Tattoos "I will wring the neck of whoever is to blame for Jimmy, is all Billy Make The first the when a policeman called al the at 1.45am, of nephews in Cantril Farm 1lcy boys their uncle had a series of tattoos running up his but without giving any explanation.
Their address, it later emerged, was found in & diary Jimmy was carrying at the time of his death. A little while later, brother Bobby. received a from his daughter who is a policewoman.
heard uncle's over the father to Whiston Hospital.
Bobby identified his brother's body, but when brother Eddie saW the body later be was both disturbed and unhappy about the many marks on "The following day when the inquest was adjourned, permission to bury was given, but the family decided otherwise.
Eddie sought help and a second post-mortem arranged.
don't know much about these things,' says Eddie, 'but I thought myself once he is six feet under there is no way I can cause a fuss.' He was right. It needs an order from the Home Secretary to exhume body and the delay obtaining this could well have meant the state decomposition would hinder any examination.
'I got a solicitor, says Eddie, 'but first of all he told me he wanted £300 in advance and then when I said he could have it, told me to take the case elsewhere.' Eddie did and the second post-mortem, paid for by the family, was carried out.
When the Kelly family received the dramatic findings of the pathologist's report on September, they stood by their agreement to a police Wreaths are carried on the march organised by the Jimmy Kelly Action Committee in Huyton request keep contents secret until they had had a meeting with the West Midlands Assistant Chief Constable David in Getty, who has been called in to investigate allegations of police brutality in Huyton.
Eddie Kelly assumed they would have opportunity to ask questions of Getty and perhaps see a report of the post morter, carried out by the 'But Mr Getty would see our Billy,' Eddie. 'He wouldn't let us ask him any questions, and he wouldn't agree that if we showed our report he would show us his. He just wanted our report and was going to give nothing return.
'He treated as criminals be discused the court. matter • to ens as and decided contents to the press didn't show it to him.' The report, by Dr John Torry, says that Jimmy Kelly had injuries consist. ent with a severe beating; that he died of acute heart failure and that immediately prior to his death had sustained numers minor injuries consisten punches applied by the knees, aad a DUeI jaw; suffered considerably more injury than could be expected of a man who resisted arrest.
Dr Torry added that he had come across considerable obstruction by Socialist Challenge like | police before carry This postmortem found uncooperative.
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-DO YOU REMEMBER what happened at Hounslow Hospital? That was where health officials supported by police, carried out a bed-time raid in order - to transfer patients to another hospital. Hounslow Hospital was condemned to _ closure, and hospital staff were conducting a work-in to stop it happening.
Today many of these staff are preparing to face the Tory's cuts and the Area CARL BRECKER, Chairperson of Joint Union Committee, speaking from the platform: LEON AUGUST & the Area Health Authority took deci those cuts it ceased to be a body that
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sions which changed the nature of that body. From the moment it passed