The claims come on the 25th anniversary of the death of Jay Abatan, 42, who was attacked outside a Brighton nightclub in January 1999.
No one has been convicted for the fatal attack on Jay nor the assault immediately afterwards on his brother Michael. Both were set upon by a group of white men as they left the Ocean Rooms nightclub.
Sussex police who investigated the death of Abatan, who was mixed race, made a string of errors, revealed by hundreds of internal police documents seen by the Guardian. The documents show witnesses and forensic opportunities missed, police using racist terms such as "half caste" and "coloured" and a failure to treat the death seriously enough, with an under-resourced investigation.
An inquest ruled it an unlawful and unprovoked killing, with suspects identified quickly by Sussex officers committed to getting justice, but convictions failed to follow.
Michael Abatan said a new force should take over the investigation and a public inquiry was needed. "I just want the truth and I am sick of being lied to and treated like a fool," he said. "I trusted the authorities to do their job and they let Jay down." Jay, a tax accountant, fractured his skull after falling during the attack, and died five days later, the inquest found.
Michael claimed that before the group containing the attackers reached the club, they had been drinking with a police officer. Inside the Ocean Rooms, he said, there was tension after Jay danced with a white women who was part of the group.
Violence started when Jay's group left the nightclub looking to get a taxi.
A postmortem found Jay suffered ablow that fractured his eye socket, another wound to his mouth, and that his skull was fractured at the back when he fell and his head hit concrete. He also had facial grazes.
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