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| UPDATED
EVERY FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 20th
May, 2005 |
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| Grief and anger as ‘Dobo’s’
ashes are scattered at Lock |
Samily and friends of Kebba Jobe, with his daughter
Rohey and former wife Jacky centre.
Kebba Jobe
Tounday Grant with his lion medallion he wears to remnind
him of his friend |
THE ashes of a man who died as he was arrested by
police were scattered at Camden Lock on the first anniversary
of his death on Sunday.
Friends and relatives say they are still seeking justice for
Kebba ‘Dobo’ Jobe, who died on May 15 last year
shortly after being stopped by a plain-clothes drugs officer
on the Regent’s Canal towpath.
An inquest ruled that he choked to death on a plastic bag
lodged in his throat, and cleared the police officers involved
of any wrongdoing – a verdict that Mr Jobe’s friends
and at least one witness angrily dispute.
Sunday’s vigil was both an occasion of remembrance and
a rally of campaigners seeking answers from an independent
inquiry into Mr Jobe’s death.
Alongside the flowers and pictures of Mr Jobe, there were
posters calling for more witnesses to come forward.
His former wife, Jacky Jobe, said: “We’re not
scattering his ashes here just because he died here. He really
loved it up here – the atmosphere, the music.”
She explained that she and her daughter could not attend the
men-only Islamic funeral in Mr Jobe’s native Gambia.
Mrs Jobe added: “So this is like a funeral just for
us.”
She is angry that, a year after his death, an investigation
by the Independent Police Complaints Commission has not produced
any results.
She said: “It’s disgusting we’re still waiting.
We’re not going to let it lie – we’re going
to carry on and try and get justice.”
Her daughter, Rohey, 8, said she had been bullied about her
father’s death.
She added:“But when I’m sad, when I think about
him it always cheers me up. I’ll always miss him.”
Friends are continuing a campaign to overturn the inquest
verdict.
Tounday Grant, a childhood friend of Mr Jobe’s from
Gambia, said: “It’s justice not done. The reason
we are here today is to remember Dobbo as one of us.
“I saw the man half an hour before he died. He was going
to spend the evening at my place. I always remember hanging
out, having a drink, having a smoke, him having a girl, me
having a girl.
“I don’t regret nothing I’ve done with him.”
As a reminder of his friend, he wears one of two identical
lion pendants they bought years ago from a Camden jeweller.
Another close friend of Mr Jobe, said: “One year later:
same place, same time, same situation.
“We’re going for justice. We’re not going
to break the police station windows. We’re playing by
their rules. But it’s one family against the state.” |
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