Stun gun death: family of victim take IOPC to court
The Guardian|November 29, 2022
'Our brother was a good man... nobody deserves to die like this'
- Diane Taylor
Stun gun death: family of victim take IOPC to court

The family of Oladeji Omishore, who drowned in June shortly after he was shot with a stun gun by police, are taking the police watchdog to the high court in a test case - accusing it of failing to properly investigate the officers involved.

Omishore, 41, who lived close to Chelsea Bridge in south-west London, had stepped out of his home on 4 June this year when the incident happened. He was experiencing a mental health crisis, which his family say police should have tried to deescalate. Two Metropolitan police officers discharged their Tasers multiple times, Omishore fled and jumped into the Thames and drowned.

The officers who fired the Tasers remain on full operational duties. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is investigating the incident, is treating the officers as witnesses.

The family says the IOPC has acted unlawfully by not correctly applying its own criteria about when to order a criminal investigation into officers' actions after a serious incident.

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