The high court refused to order him to hand over to the family documents from the police investigation into his death. The lord chief justice, Lord Woolf, decided the best way for the family to see these documents was via an inquest. They still haven't received a single piece of paper from the Met police. It doesn't have to be like this. The secrecy is unnecessary.
Many countries have independent investigations of such deaths.
But the current British system sends out a message that police can act with virtual impunity.