Main police replace into Cardiff crash that killed two greatest pal schoolboys
The police watchdog has introduced a serious new improvement within the case of two youngsters who died after their e-bike was concerned in a collision in Cardiff triggering main riots within the metropolis on Monday evening.
The Indepedent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) stated it will likely be probing “any interaction” between South Wales Police officers and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, who have been killed within the Ely space of the Welsh capital whereas using an electrical bike.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct stated in a press release: “Following a referral from South Wales Police we have decided to independently investigate an incident in Ely, Cardiff, on Monday which resulted in the deaths of two teenagers.
“Our choice to research follows our attendance on the police publish incident process and after a overview of the data acquired up to now.
“We will be examining any interaction between the police and the boys after CCTV footage emerged apparently showing a police vehicle following a bike prior to the incident.”
A video circulating on social media seems to indicate a police automobile following a motorbike being ridden by two folks a couple of minutes earlier than Monday night’s collision.
South Wales Police stated the collision involving Kyrees and Harvey had already occurred when the primary officers arrived on the scene in Snowden Road the place the incident happened simply after 6pm on Monday. Tensions rose and spilled over into rioting which noticed missiles and fireworks thrown on the police and automobiles set alight.
Scenes being livestreamed on YouTube confirmed younger folks throwing fireworks and different missiles at a line of cops with riot shields who have been blocking one finish of the road.
Police stated arrests have been made after the dysfunction, which left 15 officers requiring medical consideration – 11 of which have been handled in hospital. At about midnight, Belinda Sullivan, Kyrees’s mom, pleaded on Facebook with the rioters to cease as a result of her son’s physique remained on the scene of the crash.
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Alun Michael, the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, informed BBC‘s Radio 4 programme on Wednesday: “We have to look at the facts of what actually happened on Monday. I am assured and I am still assured youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident.
“The highway site visitors accident is being rigorously investigated however there wasn’t a police automobile within the highway the place and when the precise accident occurred.
“The impression that was given was that of youngsters being chased by the police and an accident happened, an immediate one to the other.
“That, I’m nonetheless assured, shouldn’t be what occurred, however info emerged of the automobile and the kids in the identical avenue, a distinct avenue, shortly earlier than the occasion. That in fact then comes into one thing that ought to be investigated.”
It was put to Mr Michael that this leaves open the possibility of a pursuit and he replied: “It leaves open the likelihood.”
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