No misconduct from Met officers in Chelsea Bridge death, watchdog finds

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Two Metropolitan Police officers have been cleared of misconduct by the police watchdog after a man died shortly after being tasered and jumping from Chelsea Bridge.

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00:00The police watchdog has cleared the officers involved in this particular incident of

00:07misconduct. Findings of an investigation into the death of 41-year-old Ola Deji Omishaw

00:14were published on Monday. A jury at the Inner West London Coroner's Court

00:21concluded that Mr Omishaw was suffering a mental health relapse. His cause of death

00:28was ruled as due to complications from drowning, with the jury not concluding

00:34that the actions of the officers probably caused his death. Police body-worn video

00:40from the day of the incident showed Mr Omishaw was tasered three times by one of the officers

00:47for a total of eight and a half seconds for refusing to comply with three separate requests.

00:53This has come from the Independent Office for Police Conduct. Tasers were discharged twice more

01:01as Mr Omishaw ran towards the bridge barrier at Chelsea Bridge and then jumped over the bridge

01:09railings, but neither had impact. He then proceeded to jump over the railing and fell

01:16into the River Thames. Mr Omishaw died in a hospital later that evening after being rescued

01:24from the water. Both officers told the IOPC during its investigation that they believed

01:31the incident may have been a terrorist attack because it happened during the Queen's Jubilee

01:39weekend, which the watchdog found to be quote-unquote not unreasonable.

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