Hundreds join north London march in memory of teenager Henry Hicks killed in police chase

 
Protest: Hundreds gathered outside Islington Police Station (Picture: @Tex_jacks/Twitter)
Tom Marshall4 April 2015

Hundreds of people marched through north London today as they called for "justice" for a teenager who died while being chased by police.

Henry Hicks, 18, died in hospital after crashing his moped into a parked car a few days before Christmas last year.

The trained carpenter was being followed by police when the accident happened in Wheelwright Street, next to Pentonville Prison in Islington.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/justiceforhenry?src=hash" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-71531-https://twitter.com/hashtag/justiceforhenry?src=hash" data-vars-event-id="c23">#justiceforhenry</a> demo outside Islington Police Station. crowd is well over a thousand, chanting "we want justice!" <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=9&amp;id=222025&amp;p=http://t.co/ys2EklPgTx" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-71531-http://t.co/ys2EklPgTx" data-vars-event-id="c23">pic.twitter.com/ys2EklPgTx</a>— righttoprotest (@righttoprotest) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/righttoprotest/status/584365131196456960" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-71531-https://twitter.com/righttoprotest/status/584365131196456960" data-vars-event-id="c23">April 4, 2015</a>

Today, hundreds took to the streets of Islington to march in his memory and back his family's "justice for Henry" campaign.

Caring brother: Henry Hicks, 18, died in a crash in north London

More than 1,000 people gathered outside Islington police station chanting "we want justice", according to one report on social media.

Some 18,000 have also backed an online petition set up by his older sister Claudia.

She told the Independent: "If it had been members of the public chasing someone in cars which led to a death those people would have been arrested and locked up yet the police in Henry’s case are still allowed to work, but why?

"Henry was a lovely boy and didn’t have any criminal convictions.

"There has always been a real ‘them and us’ feel with younger people and the police in Islington. Henry and his friends used to get bullied by police a lot and antagonised. I think they always hoped to provoke a reaction."

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