Compensation from London police awarded a court to a young man arrested for attempted murder of his mother who attempted suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of an apartment building.
Video from a camera in a police uniform, recorded the moment the police arrested Darryl McLean for attempted murder of his mother. The police handcuffed the 16-year-old who was asking why he was arrested, since "I wasn't doing it here." The young man fell down and shouted "I wasn't here".
Despite being at his grandmother's house at the time of his mother's suicide attempt, the young man was taken to his police station, where he was in custody for nearly 24 hours.
The investigation found that the 16-year-old's mother jumped off the roof of a five-story apartment building in London in July 2021 as she was in a "dark phase" after an infection from COVID-19. A suicide note and bloody razor blades were found at the house. The woman survived the fall, but suffered brain, hip, and arm injuries, after hitting an iron railing on the ground floor.
Daryl sued the police for racial discrimination and illegal detention, after being released for damages of 150,000 euros because after what happened he suffered post-traumatic stress and had nightmares. He said the police acted with racist prejudices and rushed to "make the conclusion" that he was suspected, instead of "a child in a state of crisis". He claimed that the police arrested him instead of conducting a proper investigation.
Now, after a seven-day trial, the jury found that Daryl suffered racial discrimination and was treated "less favorably than a boy who was not black would have faced," according to Daily MailThe London police are now obliged to pay compensation after they were found to have violated McLean's human rights and that he was unjustly imprisoned.
Police questioned the lawsuit with her lawyers arguing that police merely did their job by investigating a "serious and critical incident". The young man's lawyer pointed out that Darryl's father called the police after finding a bedroom window open, blood on the ledge and on the floor and his wife missing.
Police officers who reached the point found that she had fallen from the fifth floor, after climbing from her window and had walked along the gutter.
The judge will issue a decision on the amount of compensation at a later date.