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Police Murder

Dan | 14.08.2003 08:47 | Liverpool

Andrew Kernan, The mentally ill man from Wavertree who was shot dead by Merseyside police must not be forgotten. Cover up after cover up - has left his mother with no son and no justice - and the cop who shot him dead, like all cops who kill faced no charges.
Mrs Kernan’s only crime was to call for help when her son began to suffer with increased anxiety.

Armed and dangerous on the streets of Liverpool

Andrew Kernan, The mentally ill man from Wavertree who was shot dead by Merseyside police must not be forgotten. Cover up after cover up - has left his mother with no son and no justice - and the cop who shot him dead, like all cops who kill faced no charges.
Mrs Kernan’s only crime was to call for help when her son began to suffer with increased anxiety.
Marie Kernan called for help for her son, who was having one of his relapses. What usually happened was the Mental Health support team would arrive and 'administer treatment'. Instead they arrived – didn’t see Andrew and called the cops. When the cops arrived they cleared the street and ordered Mrs Kernan out of the house, and locked her in the back of a police car. The cops armed to the teeth, teargassed Andrew in his bedroom. Then in the presence of 44 cops Andrew was allowed onto the street, taking with him the ornamental Samarian Sword that had been on his bedroom wall. Mrs Kernan heard her son calling ‘Mum, Mum’ heard two shots, and the next time she saw him he was on a cold slab in the mortuary. Andrew was shot dead - like a dog. The whole case from start to finish has been a cover up. - The NHS in their report into the Mental Health support team protected their people (they didn't even interview cops). Greater Manchester Police investigated Merseyside Police’s role, they then sat on the report for 15 months - gave it to the CPS (Crown Prosecution service) - who sat on it for 6 months - and they then sent a fax to Mrs Kernan's solicitor saying the cops had no case to answer. Andrew a former gardener for Liverpool City Council was known in the area where he lived as the gentle giant, - he was neither a hardened drug dealer, a gangster nor a terrorist - he was a man suffering with mental health problems. And he was shot dead because he had mental health problems and because his mother called for help. We really do live in a land ‘where justice is a game’. Where the lives of working class people mean nothing, and the life of a person with mental health problems means even less. The cops as always can shoot who they want.
Meanwhile dear Mrs Kernan is left alone, with no beloved son and with a spit in the face from the people she relied on for support and one after the other has covered up and back up each other.
Support Mrs Kernan - Justice for Andrew Kernan

Dan

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No justice

14.08.2003 22:29

'They' take the attitude that they've got away with so much, they can do what they want.
The only upshot of this sad case is that it will bolster the position of arming the police with 'non-lethal' weaponry, which will then be used with much more frequency because of its 'non-lethality'
A state of double-bind fascism is entrenched

dh


Justice for Andrew Kernan

02.12.2004 20:04

The arrogance of the Police in the way they have handled this is absolutely unbelievable. In any other profession or industry the individuals would be heavily disciplined and maybe even prosecuted if they displayed such dreadful negligence that led to the death of a vulnerable and terrified individual. It is horrifying to think that if there was an incident in your own home, with a relative suffering from a mental illness, that the Police could arrive and take charge and end up killing that individual when their own catalogue of mistakes causes them to lose control of the situation. I hope Mrs Kernan gets justice, and that the officers involved are brought to book. Andrew Kernan was murdered due to incompetence.

JJ


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