Hello, and welcome to our fifth installment now of our monthly Black Lives Matter series

on Redhanded.

The story we're covering today is possibly one of Scotland's most notorious and controversial

cases.

At least that's how it's described in a lot of places that we read about it.

And in some ways, it shares a lot of similarities to another UK case that we discussed a couple

of months back, the case of Darren Cumberbatch.

Much like in Darren's case, Shekubayo was a young man who was in a severely distressed

state.

And if different officers had arrived on the night in question, officers who had acted

more appropriately, Shekubayo would most likely still be alive today.

The other half of this story also gets into the insidious nature of police cover-ups.

As we highlight the efforts made by both the Scottish police and its unions to manipulate

facts and downright lie about what happened in order to sway public opinion and save their

own skin.

Shekubayo was born in Sierra Leone in 1983.

In age 12, he moved to the UK to escape the civil war that was tearing his country apart.

And heartbreakingly I thought when I read this, Shekub spent the first five years of his

time living alone in London as an unaccompanied minor at the age of 12.

That just is so so sad I can't even cope.

And a lot more common than you think.

Yeah, absolutely.

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