Shukri Yahye-Abdi: Family sue police over girl s river death
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image captionShukri Yahye-Abdi came to the UK in 2017
The family of a 12-year-old girl who drowned in a river has launched legal action against the police force which investigated her death.
Shukri Yahye-Abdi, who came to the UK as a refugee in 2017, died in the River Irwell in Bury in June 2019.
The family s lawyer said they were suing Greater Manchester Police (GMP) over alleged failings they claim were due to institutional racism .
GMP said an independent review found insufficient evidence of misconduct.
Last month Manchester North coroner Joanne Kearsley ruled the death of Shukri, who was holding hands with another child when she went into the river, was an accident.
The family also accuse greater Manchester Police of institutional racism
JUSTICE FOR SHUKRI: Activists take to the street to demand justice for the 12-year-old refugee schoolgirl (Photo via Getty Images)
LAWYERS ACTING on behalf of Shukri Abdi’s family are suing Greater Manchester Police.
Their civil action claims that the police force breached the Human Rights Act during their investigation.
Tragically, the body of the 12-year-old schoolgirl Shukri Abdi was found in the River Irwell in Bury, Greater Manchester on June 27 in 2019.
She was with a group of four children when she died. For legal reasons, those children cannot be named.