Dad legal fight after cops tookhimfromdyinggirl
Harrowing footage as parent sues police force
THE son of an RAF gunner whose plane crashed during the Second World War may finally be able to lay his father to rest – as the bomber is soon to be recovered from a lake.
Sgt Leonard Shrubsall was one of seven crew members on a Short Stirling shot down in 1943.
Relatives, including son Richard, believed the plane crashed into the North Sea, until it was discovered in Lake IJsselmeer, Netherlands, in 2008.
The plane will now be raised from the mud, four metres below the lake’s surface. And it is believed the crew will be found.
Richard, 76, of Iwade, Kent, was not born when his hero dad died.
His wife Janice, also 76, said: “We’re ecstatic it’s going to be recovered.”
Mum and dad at girl’s bedside
Mr Abbasi tells police he has chest pains
A FATHER dragged from his dying daughter’s bedside by police says he wants to ensure it never happens to another family.
Rashid Abbasi has launched legal proceedings for wrongful arrest after officers wrenched him away half an hour after he and wife Aliya were told six-year-old Zainab’s life support was being withdrawn
Police bodycam footage shows officers handcuffing the 59-year-old hospital consultant and strapping his legs together as he begs for medication for chest pains.
Mr Abbasi was later told he had suffered a heart attack, and he underwent an emergency angioplasty the next day.
He said: “I want the world to see
[what happened] so that it isn’t allowed to happen any more.”
Mr Abbasi, who has worked in the NHS for 30 years, and ex-doctor Aliya were in a dispute with medics over care for Zainab. Police were called after staff claimed he pushed a doctor who tried to stop him returning to the bedside. In the footage, officers
BEREAVED Rashid & wife repeatedly ask the parents to talk outside, but Mr Abbasi, holding Zainab’s hand, tells them: “I am not leaving.”
He told Sky News yesterday: “I knew that if I left that bed space I would not be allowed to come back.”
In the clip his wife is seen pleading for compassion, saying: “We’ve just been told about half an hour ago that they are going to take the tube out and our
Officers drag him from the ward
daughter is going to die.” In the struggle that follows, Mr Abbasi begs officers to retrieve medication from his pocket.
He said officers “behaved like barbarians”, adding that he and his wife were “shouted at and treated like scum”.
Zainab was on a ventilator with the rare genetic Niemann-Pick disease.
The NHS trust applied to the High Court for permission to take her off the ventilator but she died the month after the incident, before the hearing was due.
The hospital and police force involved cannot be identified for legal reasons.
The hospital said: “It is essential we maintain a safe and secure environment.” The police said: “Our duty was to ensure the safety of all those present.” They said Mr Abbasi was taken to A&E.