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Jan08

Simon Murden died at the hands of the police in March 2005. The inquest is being held from mid-Feb to end March 2008. The venue is the Octagon Centre, Hull.

Hull Daily Mail reports: 

(1)  A63 SHOOTING INQUEST 

• David Murden called the police early on March 22nd. 

• Simon, 26, had fled the family's Beverley home in what Mr Murden described as a 'psychotic incident'. 

• Police arrived at 8am to notify Mr Murden that Simon had been shot on the A63.

• He said one officer told him "the police had to do it".

(2)  BROTHER CALLED MUM 

• Mum was returning from Wales after scattering her parents ashes. 

• They had died the year before.

(3)  WEAPONS FOUND IN SIMON'S ROOM 

• two air rifles, one working and one not working, an African machete, scabbard and a blow pipe were among the items found in Simon's room. 

• DM was asked by police officers if Simon had access to a firearm, to which he said "No, none at all." 

• I wouldn't consider these toys as firearms

(4)  THE FRANTIC CALLS 

• During an hour-and-a-half period David Murden spoke with police four times. 

• DM did warn officers he feared his son had taken at least one sword from the family's Beverley home. 

• His son was repeatedly shot and fatally wounded by armed police officers on March 22 after driving the wrong way down the A63. 

• DM asked for help in finding an emergency doctor. 

• DM recorded saying his son had had four nights of not sleeping and "he's threatening to kill the first person that comes through the door". 

• Simon had not threatened to take someone's life, but it was his impression of Simon's state of mind. 

• At 6.05am Mr Murden called the police and said his son had "driven off irrationally" in the blue Ford Transit van in a "psychotic state" after smashing up his room. 

• Mr Murden told the officer he may have taken a sword with him. 

• The inquest had earlier been told he had actually taken three swords. 

• The officer then told Mr Murden Simon was driving the wrong way on the A63 and they were trying to head him off. 

• Simon Murden died of internal bleeding after being hit by six bullets fired by police.

(5)  HE HAD THREE SWORDS

• Beverley charity worker Simon Murden had three African swords with him

• Simon was found with 13 bullet wounds.

• At one stage he was driving on the wrong side of the carriageway

• about two-thirds of a mile from where he was shot, Mr Murden collided with a car

• armed police had been told by witnesses he may have been carrying something that may have been a firearm.

• he had smashed up his bedroom at their home and had left over the roof.

• Simon was "very, very paranoid" and that he believed the episode may have been induced after smoking cannabis a couple of days previously.

• Mr Cameron was the only person at yesterday's inquest who said Simon was found to have three swords with him as he walked along the A63.

• There was no description given as to how he was holding the swords.

• the officers involved, A-F, have been granted anonymity.

• Officer D fired two shots from a baton gun, which fires rubber bullets, and one shot from a pistol.

• Officer C fired nine shots from a carbine automatic weapon. 

• The pistol shot from Officer D and five shots from the carbine of Officer C hit Mr Murden.

• The fatal shooting - the only one in the history of Humberside Police - was initially investigated by the IPCC which passed its findings on to the CPS to decide if any criminal charges should be brought.

• Ken Macdonald QC, DPP, announced in Oct 2006 they would not face charges.

• Mr Macdonald said Mr Murden had been behaving in an "unpredictable manner", carrying a "form of weaponry that was capable of inflicting fatal injuries".

• The family's appeal was turned down.

(6) SIX BULLETS, ANY ONE OF THEM FATAL

• many of them could have been "independently fatal".

• Dr Shorrock told the hearing he found a total of 13 bullet wounds on the 26-year-old's body.

• Dr Shorrock revealed how he believed injuries caused from just one bullet would have been enough to kill Simon.

• one wound as being "far steeper" than the others, and said this could have been caused by the shot being fired as Simon was seated, as he was getting up or as he was falling forward.

• "Entry one was completely different. It is stand alone. You suggested he may have been falling forward when this shot was fired. However, there is another possibility.
  "It is possible the wound could have been caused as Simon was sitting on the ground, the shooter approaches and fires from a foot and a half away." Dr Shorrock confirmed this was a possibility.

• witnesses hadtelephoned the police saying they had seen a blue Ford Transit van driving westbound on the eastbound carriageway of the A63 in a "challenging" way.

• He was also told it had collided head-on with a car.

• He said Simon was then reported to have gone into a petrol station to try to get hold of another vehicle.He left and was pursued on foot by officers, who Simon is alleged to have threatened close to the Little Chef at North Cave.Dr Shorrock said he had noted at the time two baton rounds of plastic bullets were then fired at Simon.

• He said Simon was then reported to have fallen to the ground, but had got up again, walking towards the police officers, and it was then they discharged firearms at him.

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