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Human rights group calls for reopening of Mark Duggan's case after new research finds police conclusions ‘incorrect’
Mark Duggan was shot dead by police in 2011

A HUMAN rights group has called for the case into Mark Duggan’s death to be reopened after new research suggested the original conclusions of a police report into the incident were “incorrect.”

Forensic Architecture has analysed the events that led to the 2011 shooting of the 29-year-old in Tottenham, north London, by a police officer, which sparked widespread riots.

Mr Duggan was shot twice while in the process of throwing away a gun, according to a 2015 police watchdog report. But none of the officers on the scene said they saw a gun flung through the air.

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