Family members of death-in-custody sufferer Allan Marshall have been given recent hope of solutions following a three-hour assembly with Scotland’s most senior prosecutor.
Mr Marshall died in March 2015 after being brutally restrained by jail officers on the capital’s Saughton Jail.
The case provoked public fury after the Sunday Mail went to courtroom to disclose surprising footage of the incident displaying him being dragged bare down a hall with a towel over his face.
His older brother Alistair and aunt Sharon MacFadyen met Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain on the Crown Workplace in Edinburgh on Friday.
Sharon, from Rutherglen, Glasgow, stated “We're much more hopeful of lastly getting solutions to all of the questions we have now been asking since Allan’s dying.
“The Lord Advocate actually listened and stated she would get again to us within the subsequent six to eight weeks along with her response.
“We have now additionally given her numerous new info which she was not conscious of.
“For the primary time, she was listening to the complete story. The Lord Advocate additionally listened to our considerations over the best way we have been handled after Allan died.”
On the time of his dying, Mr Marshall, 30, from Glasgow, ran his personal recycling enterprise. He was on remand and due for launch. He died after spending three days in a coma at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, following his restraint on the jail.
A Deadly Accident Inquiry in 2018 dominated his dying was “solely preventable” and the identical guards have been accused of failing to inform the entire fact about what occurred.
Mr Marshall’s household posed 19 questions in regards to the investigation into his dying to the Lord Advocate.
They wished to know why no jail officers concerned in his restraint have been charged over his dying and why they got immunity from prosecution in return for giving proof on the FAI.
The Marshalls’ solicitor Jelina Berlow-Rahman stated: “We're happy somebody is lastly listening to the households and their considerations.”
In December we reported how Mr Marshall’s household had been refused a public inquiry by Justice Secretary Keith Brown, who claimed all problems with concern have been addressed on the 2018 FAI.
Lord Advocate Bain QC stated: “I'm grateful to have had the chance to fulfill with Allan Marshall’s household.
“On account of reviewing this case, the Crown has made important enhancements to the best way it investigates deaths in custody.”
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