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Because the verdict was in 2013. The death was in 2011. The received wisdom on the street at the time was that he was cuffed, because the police always cuff a black man when they have a warrant to search his home for drugs. The suggestion that he had been uncuffed for his own comfort was scorned, because 9 times out of 10 when the police arrest a black man and there are no witnesses, they beat him up. (N.B. It's believed that there is not one black man in Brixton who has never been beaten up by police.) His comfort was hardly a concern. So in 2011 the police lied about him being uncuffed and stabbing himself. In 2013 they embellished the lie by adding the stuff about his abrupt change of mood, grabbing a knife from somewhere unknown, threatening officers (plural) and stabbing himself.
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Well it was only in the actual verdict, how was anyone researching the matter ever going to find that?