Peach decision soon?
NZPA London Britain’s Director of Public Prosecutions (Sir Thomas Hetherington) will decide this week whether any policemen should face a criminal charge over the death of a New Zealand teacher, Mr Blair Peach.
The formal inquest into the death in April will reopen late next week after several adjournments.
The decision on criminal charges will determine the extent to which the Coroner’s Court investigates the circumstances of Mr Peach’s death during a violent clash between the police and demonstrators protesting against the neo-Nazi National Front.
Mr Peach, aged 33, died of injuries resulting from single blow to the head from what an independent pathologist later said was almost certainly a metal pipe or a weighted cosh, rather than a police truncheon.
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Press, 3 October 1979, Page 6
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