I say again: I want an independent public inquiry. I am fed up with you people. In two courtrooms you could not give us justice

Darsham Chhokar

Aamer Anwar, the lawyer acting on behalf of the Chhokar Family Justice Campaign, told Dr Jandoo it was the "end of your inquiry" and made a fresh call for an independent public investigation.

Mr Chhokar, father of the murdered 32-year-old waiter from Overtown, Lanarkshire, said he and his family had been denied justice by the Crown's handling of the case.

No-one was convicted of the murder of Surjit Chhokar in Overtown in November 1998, after the three men charged blamed each other for the killing during two separate trials.

At the hearing in Glasgow on Monday, Mr Chhokar's father addressed Dr Jandoo for 20 minutes in a highly emotional speech in his native Punjabi as his wife, Gurdev, covered her face with her hand.

Utterly discredited

Interpreted by Mr Anwar, he said: "My family asked from the beginning why there was only one man on trial the first time.

"The second time the whole world knows what happened.

"I say again: I want an independent public inquiry. I am fed up with you people. In two courtrooms you could not give us justice."

Speaking after the hearing, Mr Anwar said both Mr Jandoo's inquiry and the probe by Sir Anthony Campbell, Justice of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland, into the decision-making process had been "utterly discredited".

He added: "All that the Chhokar family hope for is that they will secure an inquiry which is held accountable.

"The family will no longer participate in any of these inquiries."