A SILENT vigil was held in Glasgow this evening to mark the eight-year anniversary of the death of Sheku Bayoh, with the public inquiry into his death to restart this month.
Crowds gathered at the top of Buchanan Street where flowers were laid and candles lit in memory of the 31-year-old who died while in police custody in 2015, having been arrested on a Kirkcaldy street.
Mr Bayoh, a father of two, was originally from Sierra Leone and had lived in Scotland since he was 17.
His official cause of death was listed as "sudden death in a man intoxicated…[drugs] whilst under restraint".
However, questions have been raised over the behaviour of the police and the accounts given of the incident.
The Lord Advocate told Mr Bayoh's family in 2018 that there was not enough evidence to prosecute any of the officers involved, but a public inquiry was opened in 2019.
The Sheku Bayoh public inquiry restarts on Tuesday, May 9 at Capital House, Edinburgh.
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