THE Burnley sister of a former paratrooper who died in police custody is seeking a judicial review into the decision not to charge five police officers with manslaughter.

Janet Alder, 39, of the Manchester Road area, has been campaigning for justice following the death of father-of-two Christopher, 37, three years ago.

And she said she received a further blow this week after finding out her brother's heart had been retained following the post mortem examination even though she asked the coroner if his body was intact before the funeral proceeded last year.

A jury at his inquest returned a verdict that he was unlawfully killed and the Crown Prosecution Service was considering the charges faced by the five officers who had been at Queens Gardens Police Station in Hull when Mr Alder died.

Today a spokeswoman said: "There will be no further charges put before the five officers but we are still pursuing the prosecution for misconduct in a public office and that is an offence which carries a maximum of life imprisonment."

But Janet said: "It also carries the minimum sentence of a fine!

"I will be speaking to my solicitor to see if we have grounds to seek a judicial review into the CPS decision. If they only pursue misconduct in a public office a lot of the evidence will not be heard. I still want them to say why they burned his clothes instead of keeping them and why the van he had been in was cleaned."

Mr Alder, of Dagger Lane, Old Town, Hull, had been involved in a scuffle outside a night club in Hull and received a head injury.

He had refused to leave hospital grounds and was arrested for breach of the peace. When he arrived at the police station he was left on the floor in the custody suite where he died 12 minutes later. A video of his last minutes was shown to the inquest jury.