Joy Gardner
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Joy Gardner was a 40-year-old Afro-Caribbean mother and illegal immigrant from Jamaica who was killed during a struggle with the police at her home in London in 1993, which they had entered to serve deportation papers on her. Police used restraining equipment on Mrs Gardner and wrapped 13ft of tape around her head which they later claimed was to prevent her biting them. They say that Mrs. Gradner 'violently' resisted arrest.[1] Mrs. Gardner fell into a coma during incident and died in front of five-year-old son.
The three police officers involved were found not guilty of her manslaughter at a trial in 1995.
Campaigners claim that the police were brutal and used excessive force. Benjamin Zephaniah wrote a poem about the death called The Death of Joy Gardner [1]
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