caption charges date burial accused title cause article_title image place verdict
joy gardner manslaughter y 1993 08 01 lavender hill cemetery , enfield , north london . detective constable colin whitby sergeant linda evans detective constable john burrell detective death of joy gardner cerebral hypoxia , cardiac arrest death of joy gardner
 file : joy gardner.jpg crouch end , north london dc . ds evans and dc whitby found not guilty . burrell cleared on the orders of the judge
death of joy gardner

joy angelia gardner -lrb- née burke , 29 may 1953 -- 1 august 1993 -rrb- was a 40-year-old jamaican mature student living as an undocumented migrant in london , england .
she died following an attempt by police officers to detain her for deportation .
during a police raid on her home in crouch end , london , she was restrained with handcuffs and leather straps and gagged with a 13-foot length of adhesive `` elastoplast '' tape wrapped around her head .
unable to breathe , she collapsed and suffered brain damage due to asphyxia .
she was placed on life support but died following a cardiac arrest four days later .
in 1995 , three of the police officers involved stood trial for gardner 's manslaughter , but were acquitted .
the case became a cause célèbre for civil rights and justice campaigners , and for the first time brought wide public attention to what the `` modern law review '' called `` the inhumanity of the methods used routinely in the execution of deportation orders '' .
despite continuing pressure by campaigners , no coroner 's inquest or public inquiry into the circumstances of gardner 's death has been held .
