Liddle Towers (19 September 1936 – 9 February 1976) was an electrician and amateur boxing coach[1] from Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England, who died following a spell in police custody in 1976.

Later, at 4 am, he was taken from the station to Queen Elizabeth Hospital because he complained of not feeling well, and, after an examination which apparently revealed no injury and nothing wrong with him, he was taken back to the cells.

[4] Towers told a friend "They gave us a bloody good kicking outside the Key Club, but that was nowt to what I got when I got inside".

On 3 May 1977, the Attorney-General, in answer to a Written Question from the MP for Chester-le-Street Giles Radice, said that the DPP had "decided that the evidence was not such as to justify the institution of criminal proceedings against any officer".

[3] The justifiable homicide verdict was appealed and, in June 1978, was set aside by the Queen's Bench Divisional Court, which ordered a new inquest.