New Case Profiles

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This page includes links to the case profiles that were most recently added to this website!

Last Updated: 1 January 2022

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Name	Case Summaries
Edson Da Costa	25-year-old Edir Frederico Da Costa, more commonly known as Edson, died in hospital on the 21 June 2017, six days after a stop and search by plainclothes police officers in east London during which he was restrained and, it was alledged, CS sprayed. Police initially said only that Edson had ‘became unwell.’
Emily Hartley	Emily Hartley, aged 21, died in the grounds of HMP New Hall, a women’s prison in Wakefield, on 23 April 2016. She had been allowed into the prison exercise yard at about 2.30pm and was found hanged around two and a half hours later. She had been serving a sentence for arson after setting herself on fire.
Tobias Terpilowski-Gill	An investigation was launched into the death of 26-year-old Tobias Terpilowski-Gill, from Kilburn, who fell from a balcony in Kilburn on 21 December 2014 after police handcuffed him. He died from head injuries two days after the fall at his mother’s address. He died in hospital on 23 December 2014.

Name	Case Summary
Annabella Landsberg	Annabella Landsberg, aged 45, died in HMP Peterborough, (a private prison run by Sodexo) on 6 September 2017. It was claimed that some staff were unaware of her ill health, and when she died, she had allegedly wet herself, had water thrown on her by a nurse, been restrained, and been left in pain on the floor.
Darren Cumberbatch	The police watchdog launched an investigation into Coventry man, Darren Cumberbatch, aged 32, who died in hospital on 19 July 2017 after police detained him at a hostel in Nuneaton. He was taken to hospital after initially being arrested by officers. His life support machine was switched off nine days later.
Nicola Jayne Lawrence	Nicola Jayne Lawrence, aged 38, died from a combination of methadone toxicity and the administration of multiple drugs at HMP New Hall on 23 September 2016. Nicola, who had Multiple Sclerosis and struggled with mental ill health and drug addiction, was recalled to prison to serve a 28-day sentence in September 2016.
Spencer Beynon	43 year old Former solider, Spencer Beynon, (who had served 15 years in the British Army touring Iraq and Afghanistan) tragically died after being tasered by the police on the streets. He was known to have been suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) since leaving the army five years previously.

Name	Case Summary
Samuel DuBose	Samuel DuBose, aged 43, was fatally shot on 19 July 2015 during a traffic stop for a missing front license place. He was killed by a single shot to the head by a police officer who was indicted for murder. The county prosecutor described the shooting as the ‘most asinine act’ he had ever seen committed by a police officer.
Victor White	Victor White, aged 22 years old, died on 3 March 2014 when he was shot in the back seat of a parked police cruiser. After two years of investigations by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Louisiana, as well as the state police and the FBI, no criminal charges were filed. According to a report Victor shot and killed himself.
Xue Jinbo	Xue Jinbo, aged 43, died on 11 December 2011, after 3 days in custody. He was one of five people detained on suspicion of leading a demonstration in September, during which protesters stormed government buildings and overturned police cars. Family members said that Xue appeared to have been tortured.

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