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Christopher Alder body swap – new evidence of police lies and cover-up
On the 25th anniversary of the death in custody of a 37-year-old black man, followed by the release of the wrong body for burial, DAN GLAZEBROOK reports that despite the police claiming to have drawn a blank as to who was responsible, some easily available evidence had been present all along
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SOUTH Yorkshire Police this week issued a statement on the body swap of Christopher Alder and Grace Kamara which completely contradicts what they told Christopher’s family at the time.
They have also claimed that, despite a £500,000 investigation, they had been unable to obtain Alder’s burial form from the funeral directors, a document that was easily obtained by his sister by means of a single phone call.
It is 25 years ago today that Alder was dragged unconscious into Queen’s Gardens police station in Hull, bleeding from the head and the mouth, with his trousers round his ankles.
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