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Mark Duggan's family felt "a deep sense of injustice" when details of his shooting by police were revealed during a criminal trial, a court has heard.

Michael Mansfield QC said the inquest into Mr Duggan's death in Tottenham, north London, was put at risk by the trial of Kevin Hutchinson-Foster.

Mr Hutchinson-Foster was accused of supplying a gun to Mr Duggan, 29, on 4 August 2011 but the trial became "synonymous" with Mr Duggan's name.

His death sparked last summer's riot.

An eight-week inquest into Mr Duggan's death is expected to begin on 28 January.

During a pre-inquest review hearing Mr Mansfield, who represents the family, told coroner Andrew Walker at North London Coroner's Court that the inquest was delayed to protect the trial but "no-one lifted a finger to protect these proceedings".

Mr Hutchinson-Foster, 30, was accused of giving a gun to Mr Duggan 15 minutes before he was shot dead by police in Tottenham. The jury failed to reach a verdict in the trial heard at Snaresbrook Crown Court.

Mr Mansfield said: "There is a deep sense of injustice felt by all family members relating to Mark Duggan by the untrammelled exercise of the holding of a trial in public which canvassed the very issues which relate to the core of this inquest, namely the circumstances of Mark Duggan's death.

"This inquest was delayed in order to protect that trial; 15 months have gone by.

"When the trial came it was singularly apparent that no one lifted a finger to protect these proceedings - least of all the prosecutorial authorities and the investigatory authority of the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission)."

The barrister argued that reporting restrictions should have been in place during the trial.

He said: "The trial in some quarters of the media wasn't called the Hutchinson-Foster trial, it was called the Mark Duggan trial, that was how synonymous the two had become.

"That's why the family are outraged. They have exercised remarkable patience and endurance and resistance to the kind of action that some might in these kind of circumstances take."

Another pre-inquest review hearing will take place in December.

[Kizzy]

So, the defence was he had no gun...And this blokes case proves he did?
Is that what this is saying?