“Thank you for your views. What happened was a tragedy by any reckoning
but for the moment I am not prepared to automatically criticise the
police until we know the facts. It is very easy to criticise from afar
but these officers have to make split second judgements and I can
understand why shooting in the head is the only option if it reaches
that point. The questions arise as to how they got to that point, why he
wasn’t stopped before, etc. When we know that then we can judge whether
it was an avoidable situation.
Yours sincerely
Jim Paice MP”