Reconstruction of Ian Tomlinson's last moments Prevented from taking his normal route because of various police cordons, he ended up in Royal Exchange Passage, near the Bank of England, minutes after a violent clash between police and protestors. Shambling along with his hands in the pockets of his jogging pants, Tomlinson, who had been drinking heavily, told officers: "I want to go home. I live down there. I'm trying to get home. He had already been bitten on the leg by a police dog by the time he came into contact with Pc Simon Harwood at around 7.15pm. Pc Harwood, 45, had earlier been goaded by protestors as he tried to arrest a man for defacing a police van. As a result, a jury would later be told, his "blood was up," and when he thought Tomlinson was being deliberately obstructive, he whacked him across the back of his legs with his baton and then pushed him to the ground. Passers-by helped him to his feet, and he staggered 75 yards into St Michael's Alley, where he collapsed and stopped breathing. As he lay dying, his last words were: "They got me, the f***ers got me." Later that night, Scotland Yard announced that an unnamed man had collapsed and had been pronounced dead on arrival in hospital. The statement emphasised the fact that officers decided to move Tomlinson from St Michael's Alley to an area behind the Royal Exchange building because "during this time a number of missiles - believed to be bottles - were being thrown at them." The statement gave the impression that the police were the wronged party, and made no mention of any prior contact with police. The following day journalists were briefed that he had died of natural causes, had pre-existing health problems and his family were "not surprised" by his death. Dr Freddy Patel, the Home Office pathologist, gave the cause of death as coronary artery disease. Over the following days, eyewitnesses came forward with reports of seeing Tomlinson assaulted by officers, and three constables from Hammersmith and Fulham told their inspector they had seen Tomlinson being hit and pushed over. Their information was passed to City of London Police, which was investigating the death, but it appeared to fall on deaf ears. Journalists who began asking questions about whether Tomlinson had come into contact with police before his death were told by police that such speculation would "upset the family." The Independent Police Complaints Commission, which was looking into Tomlinson's death as a matter of routine, briefed reporters that there was "nothing in the story" that Tomlinson had been assaulted by an officer. And that might have been that, had it not been for the 21st century phenomenon of digital cameras. On April 7, following claims by several protestors that Tomlinson had been assaulted by police, Christopher La Jaunie, a New York-based fund manager, realised that a video of the protests he had shot on his digital camera included footage of Tomlinson being shoved to the ground. He passed the video to the Guardian newspaper, which published it on its website and passed it to the IPCC. The following day, Channel 4 News broadcast a video shot from a different angle by an ITN cameraman clearly showing Pc Harwood striking Tomlinson with his baton. The IPCC, which had until then been happy to allow City of London Police to conduct the investigation into the death, removed police from the inquiry and began its own criminal investigation. A second post-mortem examination, ordered jointly by the IPCC and the Tomlinson family, and carried out by Dr Nat Cary, found that Tomlinson had died from internal bleeding after falling on his elbow, which impacted in the area of his liver. A third post-mortem examination concurred with Dr Cary's findings. Pc Harwood, a member of a member of the Met's Territorial Support Group (TSG), which specialises in public order policing, had taken steps to conceal his identity, removing his shoulder numbers and covering most of his face with a balaclava. But a number of distinguishing features, including the fact that he is left-handed and the code U41 on his helmet, enabled investigators to track him down. Despite the welter of evidence, Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, announced in July 2010 that there would be criminal prosecution because of the conflict between the pathologists" findings. Last year, however, an inquest jury found that Tomlinson had been unlawfully killed, as a result of unreasonable force by an officer who had acted "illegally, recklessly and dangerously." The Crown Prosecution Service was forced to review its earlier decision, and in May last year Mr Starmer said that because of new medical evidence which emerged during the inquest, Pc Harwood was to be charged with manslaughter.