Photo: Moment a London tourist dies after screaming 'I can't breathe' to police who restrained him
Pictured: The moment a London tourist dies after screaming 'I can't breathe' to police who restrained him.
Pictured: The moment a London tourist dies after screaming 'I can't breathe' to police who restrained him
Last updated at 14:18pm on 6th May 2008 This is the moment a tourist died in the street after being restrained by police.
Frank Ogboru, 43, was sprayed with CS gas and pinned down after a minor row. CCTV footage captured him losing consciousness after screaming: "I can't breathe. I can't breathe."
The Nigerian businessman, who was in London on holiday, stopped breathing and was declared dead in hospital.
Witnesses said officers had their "knees and feet" on him as he "wailed like a dog".
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Frank Ogboru is held down by four police officers in Woolwich with one appearing to have his knee on his neck
Mr Ogboru is said to have 'wailed like a dog' when he was restrained by police in 2006
But the CPS decided there was "insufficient evidence" for any of the officers to be charged in connection with Mr Ogboru's death in Woolwich in September 2006.
Speaking from her home in Lagos, Mr Ogboru's widow, Christy, said: "I am crushed. I put my faith in the British system to give me justice but it has failed me.
"Frank was not a criminal. He did not deserve to die in the street like an animal."
Officers were called to Calderwood Street where Mr Ogboru had rowed with the girlfriend of the man he was staying with.
CCTV footage shows him calmly talking to two officers but when they order him not to return to the flat a struggle ensues.
Two more officers arrive to help restrain him. Footage appears to show one officer's knee over his neck as his head dangles over the kerb.
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Pictured: The moment a London tourist dies after screaming 'I can't breathe' to police who restrained him
Last updated at 14:18pm on 6th May 2008 This is the moment a tourist died in the street after being restrained by police.
Frank Ogboru, 43, was sprayed with CS gas and pinned down after a minor row. CCTV footage captured him losing consciousness after screaming: "I can't breathe. I can't breathe."
The Nigerian businessman, who was in London on holiday, stopped breathing and was declared dead in hospital.
Witnesses said officers had their "knees and feet" on him as he "wailed like a dog".
Scroll down for more...
Frank Ogboru is held down by four police officers in Woolwich with one appearing to have his knee on his neck
Mr Ogboru is said to have 'wailed like a dog' when he was restrained by police in 2006
But the CPS decided there was "insufficient evidence" for any of the officers to be charged in connection with Mr Ogboru's death in Woolwich in September 2006.
Speaking from her home in Lagos, Mr Ogboru's widow, Christy, said: "I am crushed. I put my faith in the British system to give me justice but it has failed me.
"Frank was not a criminal. He did not deserve to die in the street like an animal."
Officers were called to Calderwood Street where Mr Ogboru had rowed with the girlfriend of the man he was staying with.
CCTV footage shows him calmly talking to two officers but when they order him not to return to the flat a struggle ensues.
Two more officers arrive to help restrain him. Footage appears to show one officer's knee over his neck as his head dangles over the kerb.
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