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71 indexed mentions for this inquiry Earliest recorded mention: 19 June 1984
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GOVERNMENT REJECTION OF INQUIRY INTO EVENTS AT ORGREAVE ON 18 JUNE 1984

Early Day Motion House of Commons
Mr Roger Godsiff · Labour
Parliamentary excerpt

That this House believes that the Home Secretary is wrong not to set up an inquiry into events at Orgreave in 1984; is aware of the numerous and well documented reports that striking miners were beaten by police batons, charged by police horses, and then falsely accused of riot; is concerned by reports that South Yorkshire police had decided in advance to charge arrested strikers with riot, which carried a life sentence; notes that the Independent Police Complaints Commission found evidence o...

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