Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Caroline Lucas (Green Party), on Thursday, 1 February 2024, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 28 members in total.

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Jay Abatan

That this House expresses concern that 25 years after Jay Abatan was killed in a racist attack in Brighton his murderers have still not been brought to justice; notes that Sussex police have apologised to Jay Abatan's family for the multiple failures in the way the investigation was conducted, as revealed by subsequent reports into his murder; further notes that a 2010 inquest into Jay’s death returned a verdict of unlawful killing; considers that not all the overarching issues raised in the Macpherson report appear to have been addressed; recognises that Michael Abatan has been campaigning since 1999 for justice for his brother and that there are countless other families of the victims of racially motivated murders who have been let down by the criminal justice system; calls on the IOPC to conduct an independent investigation into Sussex Police’s handling of Jay's death and for a different police force to take over the investigation; and further calls on the Secretary of State for the Home Department to establish and chair a Race Equality Steering Group to help ensure oversight of progress in addressing race equality across all police forces in England and Wales, as recommended by the Home Affairs Select Committee.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

349 

Session

2023-24

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Jeremy Corbyn

Lloyd Russell-Moyle

Nadia Whittome

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Subjects

Abatan, Jay

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk