Metropolitan police reopen inquiry into death of Kester David

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Metropolitan police reopen inquiry into death of Kester David

Family say it would not have taken so long to win action if bus driver, 53, found burned alive had been whitePolice investigating the death of an African-Caribbean man found burned alive failed to interview vital witnesses for more than a year, despite them contacting officers within hours to report their suspicions, the Guardian has learned. Officers concluded the death of Kester David in July 2010 in north London was suicide without interviewing a witness who told of hearing screams of fear and another witness who was suspicious at seeing two white men near the scene.