Smoking ban is go, allegedly.

[zotz]

Decided unanimously, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3996587.stm">according to the BBC. Still, after the huge margin in the entirely fair and unbiassed public consultation, what else were they going to do.

Also, am I right in thinking that the inquest that found that two policemen had unlawfully killed a man (who was carrying a table-leg in a poly bag which they believed was a shotgun) had been told by a pathologist that said dead man had been shot in the back of the head rather than the front?

Ah. Side of the head, apparently, facing slightly more away from the officers than towards. Strange that more hasn't been made of that point.

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Re: Armstrong

[zotz]

Yes, but one of the other questions was how far he'd turned, and in what manner. The path report contradicted what the officers had said about that, which makes things much more complicated.

Re: Armstrong

[shaunotd.livejournal.com]

And even the best-trained eye-witnesses often genuinely remember things the way they *should* have happened, rather than the way they did. Which reminds me: were there any other witnesses? I assume not...