article_snippet: A spokesman said the public interest in openness and transparency is 'outweighed by the significant public interest in protecting the integrity of investigations'.
article_snippet: The opening of the inquest in also took place in private.
article_snippet: According to coroners' rules, inquests should always be held in public unless exceptional matters of national security are involved.
article_snippet: FOI officer Philip Johnston added: 'I have concluded the public interest in openness and transparency is at this stage outweighed by the significant public interest in protecting the integrity of investigations and the inquest and in maintaining confidence in IPCC's law enforcement functions more generally.'