It wasn't lost on me either that this news came out on the anniversary of the unlawful killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

I stand by what I said on the thread about Raoul Moat that the police, like all public servants, MUST be accountable for their actions whatever any apologists might declare.

Earlier this year, after a period of a mere 31 years, a previously secret report concluded that Blair Peach 'almost certainly' died after blow from member of special patrol group.

The 33-year-old teacher from New Zealand's skull was crushed by a single blow to the head during a protest against the National Front in Southall, west London, on the evening of 23 April 1979; no officers were ever charged over his death

In a Guardian report in April this year it was reprted -

"The Met agreed to release the documents last year in the aftermath of the death of Ian Tomlinson, a 47-year-old newspaper seller who died after being attacked by police at the G20 protests in London. The officer filmed striking Tomlinson was a member of the territorial support group, which replaced the disbanded SPG in 1987.

The Crown Prosecution Service is still considering whether to charge the officer with manslaughter."

full report