Around The UK

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In this section you will find links to information on custody deaths and abuse from the UK. The information is drawn from several sources. Items are updated, replaced or deleted periodically.

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Also See Pt2 >

Police – deaths/abuses in custody:

A case to answer on the use of restraint
Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Acting with Impunity: beat goes on 
Source: TELEPOLIS (URL Link/pdf’s)

Angry families march for justice against police killings
Source: Demotix – see related item on Indymedia >

Armed and dangerous: the police with their fingers on the trigger
Source: Guardian Archives

Can the police be reformed?
Source: Socialist Review

Closed Shop – Are the police unaccountable for their actions?
Source: Police Federation

Community Sentencing – Crime and justice
Source: Direct.gov

Court Sentences
Source: TheSite.org

CPS law scholarship in honour of Anthony Walker
Source: CPS press release

Corporate homicide law extended to prisons and police cells
Source: The Guardian

Deaths during or following police contact  NEW
Source: Independent Police Complaints Commission

‘Deaths in custody’ corporate manslaughter crime created
Source: BBC News

Feeling passionately about custody deaths
Source: 4WardEver Members Voice

IAP publish statistical analysis of all recorded deaths: 2000-2010
Source: Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody

IAP publishes the report on its second family listening day
Source: Independent Advisory Panel (IAP)

IPCC publishes first part of ‘Corruption in the Police Service in England and Wales’ Report
Source: Independent Police Complaints Commission

Let there be justice for those who have died in police custody
Source: The Guardian

New report calls for more effective learning from death in custody inquests  NEW
Source: INQUEST

Police killings and the law
Source: International Socialism 

Victims of fatal police shootings
Source: TimesOnline

Why did their loved ones die in custody?
Source: Guardian – Race issues in the UK: special report

Why there will be more deaths in custody
Source: New Statesman

When ignorance is never bliss
Source: The Guardian

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