Sheku Bayoh

Sheku Bayoh died after being arrested by the police in the street near his house whilst under the influence of drugs on the morning of Sunday 3 May 2015.

The police had responded to calls that he was in the street on drugs and behaving erratically with a knife and when they arrived at about 7.20am in a police van multiple police officers jumped out and started to subdue him. Two of the police officers said that they thought that they were responding to a terrorist incident.