{"id":17544,"date":"2025-11-06T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/sheku-bayoh-family-criticise-police-groups-call-to-downgrade-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:30:40","slug":"sheku-bayoh-family-criticise-police-groups-call-to-downgrade-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/sheku-bayoh-family-criticise-police-groups-call-to-downgrade-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheku Bayoh family criticise police group\u2019s call to downgrade inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">Sheku Bayoh family criticise police group\u2019s call to downgrade inquiry<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Scottish Police Federation questions whether public inquiry was necessary into death in custody in 2015The lawyer for the family of Sheku Bayoh, whose death in custody is the subject of a stalled public inquiry, has criticised \u201cspeculation and delusions of grandeur\u201d from the Scottish Police Federation after suggestions that the investigation could be downgraded to a fatal accident inquiry.At a press conference on Wednesday, the federation\u2019s general secretary, David Kennedy, and lawyer Peter Watson questioned whether a public inquiry had been necessary when a fatal accident inquiry \u2013 similar to an inquest in England and Wales \u2013 was already mandatory for deaths in custody. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/nov\/05\/sheku-bayoh-family-scottish-police-federation-inquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Scottish+Police+Federation+questions+whether+public+inquiry+was+necessary+into+death+in+custody+in+2015The+lawyer+for+the+family+of+Sheku+Bayoh%2C+whose+death+in+custody+is+the+subject+of+a+stalled+publ\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Sheku Bayoh family criticise police group\u2019s call to downgrade inquiry Scottish Police Federation questions whether public inquiry was necessary into death in custody in 2015The lawyer for the family of Sheku Bayoh, whose death in custody is the subject of a stalled public inquiry, has criticised \u201cspeculation and delusions of grandeur\u201d from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17545,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions\/17545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}