Shukri Abdi: Drowned girl's mother accuses police of racism
The mother of a 12-year-old girl who drowned has claimed institutional racism within the police means the family may never know how she died.The family claim officers failed to carry out a full investigation and treated them differently because of their ethnic background.Greater Manchester Police previously said the death was a"tragic incident" and it did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances.
She said they spoke to her"harshly" and were"trying to convince [her] that her daughter had been swimming", which the family say was unlikely as Shukri could not swim, had been wearing full Islamic dress and it would have been"out of character" for her to attempt to do so.
"The family's firm position is they have only been treated in that way because of their race, and had it been a different racial background more sensitivity would have been given, more investigation would have been done," he said.Their claims are now being investigated by the police watchdog, the IOPC.
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