Exclusive: relatives accuse IOPC of failing to properly investigate Met officers who fired Taser weapon at Oladeji Omishore

The family of Oladeji Omishore, who drowned in June shortly after he was shot with a stun gun by police, are taking the police watchdog to the high court in a test case, accusing them of failing to properly investigate the officers involved.

Omishore, 41, who lived close to Chelsea Bridge in south-west London, had stepped out of his home on 4 June this year when the incident happened. He was experiencing a mental health crisis, which his family say police should have tried to de-escalate. Two officers discharged their Tasers multiple times, Omishore fled and jumped into the Thames and drowned.

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