The officers claimed that Mr Lapite had attempted to strangle PC Wright.When the case reached the CPS, it insisted that the constriction of Mr Lapite’s neck might have been caused unintentionally by PC Wright’s arm having become accidentally entangled in Mr Lapite’s clothing, forming a ligature.Ben Emmerson, counsel for Mrs Jones, told the court yesterday that Mrs Mills accepted in a recent letter that pathological evidence could not support such a theory. At the inquest, PC Wright admitted applying a neck-hold that fractured his larynx, causing him to die of suffocation. In yet another significant concession, it added: “The CPS has accepted that there may have been a weakness in the decision making process and has therefore asked a senior lawyer from the north of England to re-review this case.”Pathologists’ reports revealed that Mr Lapite had suffered 36 to 45 separate injuries during the incident with the two officers. I hope the police authorities will not continue to protect those responsible for my husband’s death and that the CPS will take this opportunity to prosecute the officers involved.”Mr Lapite’s case and a parallel challenge involving Irish-born Richard O’Brien, which is continuing, were both launched in the wake of unanimous inquest jury verdicts that they had been unlawfully killed.A CPS statement said that Mrs Mills, who had approved a decision by Robert Munday , a Principal Crown Prosecutor, not to prosecute, had decided to invite the court to quash the original decision in the light of material submitted by Mrs Jones’ lawyers. The Police Complaints Authority likewise accepted in the High Court that its decision not to recommend that the Metropolitan Police bring disciplinary charges against the officers, Constables Paul Wright and Andrew McCallum, was “flawed and should be quashed.”
The unprecedented concessions were made at the opening of four linked judicial reviews of Crown Prosecution Service decisions not to prosecute officers for death or serious injury, and mean that Mrs Mills and the authority must now re-consider whether to take action over the death of Nigerian-born Shiji Lapite during an incident in Stoke Newington, north London, in December 1994.The legal challenge, the first of its kind, has also revealed how the Metropolitan Police strenuously resisted the authority’s initial inclination to recommend that the officers be charged with disciplinary offences, and persuaded it to change its mind.Olamide Jones, Mr Lapite’s widow, said: “I am pleased with the decision today, but the fight is not over yet. Just get rid of the cricket and Kaleidoscope and I’ll be content.”Anita Brookner, writer:”I want more seriousness .. more talks, more lectures …

more information basically about the world.”Research by Agnes Severin. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Barbara Mills, yesterday conceded in a landmark case that she had been wrong to rule out a manslaughter charge against two police officers after a man died in their custody. don’t bring it up to date.”Brian Sewell, art critic: “Most of people who listen to Radio 4 are museum pieces I am a museum piece It is going to be spoilt if it is changed. Midweek may go altogether, and The Moral Maze will be moved to evenings.Woman’s Hour is likely to move to a 10am start to provide the cement in the morning schedule. A mid-morning drama has also been reported.The consumer-affairs programme You and Yours may be revamped and the unloved Afternoon Shift is likely to go so that PM can move to a 4pm start time. The “more of a good thing” philosophy will be extended to The Archers, which will get another episode on a Saturday and a longer Sunday omnibus edition.Saturday mornings, are deemed as ripe areas to pick up listeners so Cliff Morgan’s Sport of Four may go as will the anomaly of having the dull and worthy Money Box between lighter-weight shows like Loose Ends and the 12.30 comedy games shows like the News Quiz.For the changes, and againstAlan Coren, humorist:”I identify Radio 4 as a constituency, or a country, more than a radio station.”Janet Suzman, writer and campaigner: “Leave Radio 4 alone There is nothing quite like that in the whole world. Why make it like the dumbing- down radio stations?”Steve Barnett, lecturer in media studies:”We must rely on the good judgement and integrity of the controller.”Iris Murdoch, writer: “Keep it old-fashioned …

To stop the switch-off by 620,000 listeners when Today ends, the 9am slot is to be refreshed so that Melvyn Bragg’s Start the Week will turn into a celebrity chat show. It will also advertise the hotline number in the national press.Mr Boyle will tell the governors he wants to build on what is good about the station and apply a few modern scheduling techniques. Because Today is so successful he will extend it to take in Farming Today and Yesterday in Parliament.This has attracted the wrath of MPs, but by airing Today in Parliament late at night the BBC is within its charter obligations on covering Parliament and if he is brave Mr Boyle can ignore Speaker Betty Boothroyd’s “expression of concern”. Only 500,000 of listeners hail from Scotland or Northern Ireland.The new schedule will be announced next week and then Radio 4 plans a big public-information campaign to go over the head of a press which the corporation sees as hostile to change, and direct to listeners.Radio 4 will broadcast a special hotline number – like that used to help re-tuning during Test Match Special – so listeners can get details of the schedule before it goes on air in April. Loyalty to programmes is weak – except for news programmes, Radio 4’s audience only tunes into the same slots once or twice a week.Mr Boyle is also concerned that the average age of the station is 53, and of the 8.3 million people who listen in a week only 1.2 million are under 35. He wants to reverse a trend that has seen younger listeners move to Radio 5 Live.The research also confirms that Radio 4’s audience is overwhelmingly English. Research already presented to groups like the Confederation of British Industry, the Consumers’ Association and the Guild of Cookery Writers shows Radio 4 loses as many as 620,000 listeners the minute Today finishes.
After The world at One as many as 400,000 listeners turn off and almost half a million disappear when The Archers ends.

This means Radio 4’s audience declines faster in the mornings than the rest of the country’s radio stations. Most other stations see a slow decline from the mornings to the end of the day, but Radio 4’s audience falls from a peak of 2.2 million to 500,000 in two hours.Mr Boyle’s research, seen by The Independent, shows half Radio 4’s audience listen to other stations more than they listen to Radio 4. There is a dress code, it seems, for English acting legends.Photograph: Kalpesh Lathigra. Radio 4 controller James Boyle will stand in the Art Deco boardroom at the BBC’s London headquarters today and tell the governors the station needs to change because half its audience only listen to the Today programme, The World at One and The Archers. Sir John Mills watches as Sir John Gielgud unveils a plaque at the former home of Dame Edith Evans, writes David Lister. Earlier, the traffic in Ebury Street, central London, had ground to a halt, a small crowd of startled onlookers gathered and the press cameras had flashed for all they were worth.
A mellifluous voice rang out, enunciating every syllable with loving precision as Sir John Gielgud, at the age of 93, gave what could be his last public performance, unveiling the English Heritage blue plaque at Dame Edith’s childhood home, which is now a doctor’s surgery.Sir John, wearing an oatmeal coloured linen suit was accompanied by Sir John Mills, 89, also wearing an oatmeal coloured linen suit. Mr Power said: “We stood together in 1974 and we are standing up together now.