Melbourne Sikh cabbie returns 1.1 lakh dollars
Saturday, 26/10/2013
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London: A 78-year-old British Sikh woman died after being hit by a speeding police motorcycle here, officials said.
After a week-long inquest into Harbhajan Kaur’s death, police found that nobody was to blame and described her as a victim of a “tragic accident”.
However, Kaur’s family asked for a fresh investigation into the role of the London police officer, who was seriously injured in the collision.
“This wasn’t an emergency. How can it have been that urgent for the officer to be going that fast? We feel powerless that there hasn’t been a proper investigation,” Harbhajan Kaur’s son Gurmej Singh said.
“If it was me, the police would have arrested me straightaway. My mother had been crossing there every day for 18 years and she only crossed when there was the green light,” added the 61-year-old.
Dismissing chances of any foul play, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said the incident had been investigated and the officer was interviewed.
“A file was handed to the Crown Prosecution Service, which made the decision that there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction on charges of either death by dangerous or careless driving,” he added.
