“No Justice – No Peace”

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This section provides links to case profiles added within the last 3 to 6 months!

These are not necessarily recent or current cases. We are continuously adding new profiles to the site.

Last Updated: 22 January 2010

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Youth Cases:

Lee Donovan
Lee Donovan was arrested in Newport, South Wales, at around 10pm on Friday 25 April 2008. He was taken to a police cell in nearby Pontypool at 10.45pm. By 1am the next morning he was dead. Lee’s family desperately want answers as to what happened in the last few hours of his life.

Adult Cases:

Aleksey Baranovsky
Aleksey Baranovsky, aged 33, died in June 2006 in the health centre of HMP Rye Hill, near Daventry, where he was serving a seven-year sentence for burglary. The bleeding to death of Aleksey in prison is an outrage. It took him hours to die. He had repeatedly injured himself and was meant to be on a special watch to protect him.

Ian Tomlinson
Ian Tomlinson, a 47-year-old newspaper seller, died on 1st April 2009 after being assaulted at least once by officers policing the G20 demonstrations in London. He had been trying to walk home from work when he was confronted by police, hit with a baton and thrown to the ground.

John Brady
Forty-year-old John Brady, a convicted republican, was arrested over an alleged assault on 2nd October 2009. An hour after police interviews on the 4th October he was dead. He was expected to be released from prison in November and had been on weekend release from Maghaberry jail when he was arrested following an altercation.

Leon Patterson
Various accounts indicate that 31 year old Leon Patterson had been found dead in a police cell in a Stockport police cell on 27th November 1992. He was naked and foaming at the mouth. His blood covering the walls, and his skull fractured.

Barry George
The case of Barry George has proven to be one of the most controversial cases in criminal history. He was arrested, charged, tried and jailed for the 1999 murder of TV presenter Jill Dando who was gunned down in broad daylight on the doorstep of her home. Barry was acquitted of the crime after a retrial in August 2008 at London’s High Court.

Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon is facing a lengthy sentence in a US jail for hacking into Pentagon and NASA systems from his home in London. Gary has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism, and his lawyers argued, in an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, that because of this, and because the crime was committed on British soil that he should be tried here in the UK.

Cases Abroad:

Cameron Todd Willingham
Strapped to a gurney in Texas’ death chamber [0n 17 February 2004], just moments from his execution for setting a fire that killed his three daughters, Cameron Todd Willingham declared his innocence one last time. “I am an innocent man, convicted of a crime I did not commit”.

Dawit Isaak
Dawit Isaac had been jailed without charge ever since an Eritrean government crackdown closed the entire independent press in September 2001. In a bizarre twist, after being released from jail in November 2005, he was again returned behind bars.

Delara Darabi
Delara Darabi was executed in secret and contrary to law in Rasht Prison on 1st May 2009, without prior notification given to her family or attorney. She was sentenced to death for a murder that happened during a break-in when she was 17 years old. Delara was the most well known Iranian minor on the death row.

Jerard M. Drew
In April 2009 an investigation was launched after Tulsa Police arrested 38 year-old Jerard M. Drew who later died at a local hospital. The police officers in the incident were placed on restrictive duty and the investigation was led by the Tulsa Police Department. Jerard’s family said, they just want answers.

Linda Carty
A UK grandmother on death row in the US had sent out an appeal for help via a plinth in Trafalgar Square. Linda Carty, was convicted in 2002 for killing a woman in the USA as part of a plot to kidnap the victim’s baby, after a trial campaigners say was “catastrophically flawed”. She is now on death row in Texas, the only British woman awaiting execution in George Bush’s home state.

Mack ‘Jody’ Woodfox
Mack ‘Jody’ Woodfox, aged 27, was fatally shot on 25th July 2008 by officer Hector Jiminez of the Oakland Police Department during an attempted traffic stop. Preliminary autopsy results the unarmed victim revealed he had been shot in the back. Police acknowledged that some circumstances of Mack’s shooting may raise questions but claimed that all officer-involved shootings are taken seriously.

Samar Saed Abdullah
Samar Saed Abdullah was sentenced to death in August 2005. She insists she is innocent of the murder of her uncle, his wife and one of their children. She has blamed her fiancé, saying he killed her relatives in order to rob her uncle. Her fiancé was also accused of the murder, but it is not known if the authorities have been able to arrest him.

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