Mark Duggan Inquest Jury Reaches Decision

The jury in the Mark Duggan inquest has reached a conclusion into his death, which will be announced at 3.30pm.

Mr Duggan was was shot dead by armed police in Tottenham in August 2011, sparking rioting in London.

Police intelligence suggested Mr Duggan was a gang member involved in gun and drugs crimes and officers believed he had just collected a gun in east London.

A firearms officer shot him twice as he emerged from a minicab that police had forced to stop. One bullet went through his arm, the other hit his chest and killed him.

At the centre of the inquest was the issue of a handgun, found, said police, 10 to 20 feet from Mr Duggan's body and on the other side of park railings.

In heated exchanges with the Duggan family lawyer, police denied suggestions they had planted the gun.

The weapon was wrapped in a sock.

The handgun Mr Duggan was alleged to have been carrying

Neither had any trace of Mr Duggan's DNA or fingerprints, but his prints were found on a shoebox police said had been used to carry the gun inside the minicab.

The firearms officer who shot Mr Duggan was granted anonymity for the inquest and appeared under the code name V53.

Various members of Mr Duggan's family attended the inquest and his mother Pam said at the start that she hoped "the truth" of her son's death would finally come out.

The scene of the shooting in Tottenham, north London

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is still investigating the incident.

In an interim statement in August, it said it had so far found no evidence of criminality by police officers.

But Mr Duggan's family has complained it has not been kept fully informed of the investigation's progress and condemned the IPCC for suggesting early on that Mr Duggan, a father-four, had died in "a shoot-out with police".

The inquest was shown a dummy pinpointing where the shots hit Mr Duggan

Mr Duggan's death prompted rioting in Tottenham, which eventually spread to other areas of the capital and beyond.

The jury began its deliberations before Christmas following a three-month hearing.

It can come to one of three conclusions - unlawful killing, lawful killing or an open verdict.

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