New Case Profiles

“No Justice – No Peace”

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

These are not necessarily recent or current cases.

Last Updated: 12th May 2012

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Youth Cases:

Jody McIntyre
Jody McIntyre, a disabled man attending a protest against student cuts, said he was tipped out of his chair and dragged across a road on 9 December 2010, and was hit with a baton. Initially a police probe found officers were right to remove him from the wheelchair based on the “perceived risk” to him, while the baton hit was “inadvertent”.

Lynette White
Missing documents that sparked the collapse of a police corruption case – in which officers were accused of fitting up three innocent men for the murder of a prostitute – have been found intact, despite claims the files had been shredded. Police officers were accused of fabricating a case which led to the wrongful jailing of three innocent men for the murder of Lynette White in 1988.

Adult Cases:

Philmore Mills
Philmore Mills was admitted to the intensive care unit at Wexham Park Hospital on 21 December 2011, and moved on Christmas Eve to a respiratory ward. In the early hours of Tuesday 27 December, an incident occurred in which hospital security and then police were called. Mr Mills was handcuffed to the rear and restrained.

Richard O’Brien
The family of a man who died after being arrested by police won a £324,000 payout from Scotland Yard yesterday, but no apology. Richard O’Brien, 37, died in April 1994 after being pinned to the ground by three officers who said they were arresting him for being drunk and disorderly.

Victor Massey
Victor Massey, 54, died at King’s Mill Hospital, Nottinghamshire, in August 2006 while being treated with powerful painkillers for pancreatitis. The jury heard he locked himself in a shower room and threatened police. In a narrative verdict, the jury also said use of CS spray was inappropriate and restraint methods would have affected his ability to breathe.

Philip Hulmes
A man who stabbed himself in the abdomen has died after being tasered by police officers. Philip Hulmes, 53, was hit with electric probes from the stun gun after barricading himself in his home in Over Hulton, near Bolton, on Tuesday night. It is thought a concerned relative called police to the house at 8.30pm.

Cases Abroad:

Hank Skinner
Hank Skinner has been on Texas death row since 1995 for a 1993 murder he steadfastly has said he did not commit. Hank, aged 49, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1995 for killing his live-in girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two adult sons a crime he has always claimed he didn’t commit.

Charles Singleton
Death row inmate Charles Singleton, 44, died by lethal injection at the Cummins Unit Prison near Varner, Arkansas on Tuesday, January 6. Singleton was convicted of the 1979 stabbing death of Mary Lou York, and had spent 23 years on death row.

James Colburn
James Blake Colburn, 42, was executed by lethal injection on 26 March 2003 in Huntsville, Texas for the attempted rape and murder of a 56-year-old woman. In his appeals, Col burn’s lawyers argued that their client’s trial was unconstitutional because Colburn was heavily medicated with antipsychotic drugs, rendering him incompetent to stand trial.

Kelsey Patterson
Kelsey Patterson, 50, was executed by lethal injection on 18 May 2004 in Huntsville, Texas for the murder of two people. Most of Patterson’s appeals questioned his competency to be executed because of his mental condition.

Trayvon Martin
Trayvon’s killer, George Zimmerman, admitted to police that he shot Trayvon in the chest on 26 February 2012. Zimmerman, the community’s self appointed “neighborhood watch leader,” called the police to report a suspicious person when he saw Travyon, a young black man, walking from the store. Protestors were angered by the time it took to charge Zimmerman for the murder.

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