Coast police clash with Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) over bullets that killed schoolboy

Ruth Syombua (right), mother of 16-year-old form two boy, is turned away by a police officer at the Dog Unit Police station where she had gone to view the two bullets which were removed from her son's body who was shot dead by a police officer, September 06, 2016. The police officers denied to hand over the bullet to officers from IPOA who are investigating the the killing of the boy after a post moterm was carried out at the Coast General Hospital. (PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/ STANDARD)

There was a stand-off yesterday when police refused to hand over bullets extracted from the body of a teenager they killed to Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) officers.

The two bullets were extracted during a second postmortem on the body of Tony Katana, 16, who was gunned down by police in Kongowea, Nyali constituency, on the night of August 12, 2016.