{"id":522726,"date":"2025-10-23T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522726\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:40:15","slug":"amen-teklay-watchdog-investigates-police-actions-leading-up-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522726\/","title":{"rendered":"Amen Teklay: Watchdog investigates police actions leading up to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the hearing on 10 October, Brian McConnachie KC, defending the 15-year-old, lodged a special defence for his client of self-defence for the murder charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr McConnachie said: &#8220;You will see that various charges don&#8217;t take place on the same day and it is over a period of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a significant background between my client and the deceased about a variety of matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 15-year-old boy also faces an accusation of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is claimed he discarded a sword and dumped tracksuit bottoms and a bloodstained top he had been wearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Court papers state this was all done in a bid to avoid &#8220;detection, arrest and prosecution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amen, who was originally from Eritrea, had been living in Glasgow with his father for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A memorial service was held for him in Glasgow&#8217;s Kinning Park Parish Church, with his body flown to Ethiopia for a full funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the hearing on 10 October, Brian McConnachie KC, defending the 15-year-old, lodged a special defence for his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-522726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115424711478361371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}