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In this section you will find links to information on custody deaths and abuse in the United Kingdom.

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Police – deaths/abuses in custody:

Headline / Subject	Source / Link
Acting with Impunity: beat goes on	Source: TELEPOLIS (URL Link/pdf's)
Armed and Dangerous The police with their fingers on the trigger	Source: Guardian Archives
Black deaths: still fighting for justice in the UK	Source: openDemocracy
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
Corporate homicide law extended to prisons and police cells	Source: The Guardian
Deaths in Police Custody	Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Deaths during or following police contact	Source: The IPCC
Deaths in Police Custody	Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
'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: IAP
IAP publishes the report on its second family listening day	Source: IAP
IPCC publishes first part of 'Corruption in the Police Service in England and Wales' Report	Source: The IPCC
If you are anti police brutality does that mean you are anti police?	Source: A.D. Largie
Let there be justice for those who have died in police custody	Source: The Guardian
List of Police, Prison & Court Personnel charged or convicted of an offence 2009 to 2018 (pdf)	Source: FMOTL.com
New report calls for more effective learning from death in custody inquests	Source: INQUEST
No convictions over 500 black and Asian deaths in custody	Source: The Guardian
Police killings and the law	Source: International Socialism
Victims of fatal police shootings	Source: TimesOnline
Why did their loved ones die in custody?	Source: The Guardian
Why there will be more deaths in custody	Source: New Statesman
When ignorance is never bliss	Source: The Guardian

Detention – deaths and abuses in prison & psychiatric custody:

Headline / Subject	Source / Link
A brief history of capital punishment in Britain	Source: History Extra
A-Z guide to the history of executions in Britain	Source: History Extra
Britain is failing young people in custody	Source: The Guardian
Capital Punishment in England in the 18th Century	Source: Local Histories
Capital Punishment 1969: MPs vote to abolish hanging	Source: BBC On This Day
Choking to death: should we stop sending women to prison?	Source: New Statesman
Death in prison custody 2011 published	Source: IAP
Hundreds of care home patients have died dehydrated or malnourished	Source: The Guardian - social care
Inside Feltham: Why London's YOI is one of the scariest prisons in Britain	Source: The Independent
Independent Inquiry into the death of David Bennett	Source: The Guardian
Welfare and vulnerable people	Source: The IOPC
When innocent men go to jail: miscarriages of justice in Britain	Source: The Telegraph
Women shouldn't be forced to seek refuge inside a prison	Source: Politics.co.uk

General & Legal – issues of interest:

Headline / Subject	Source / Link
Birmingham Pub Bombings: Latest news updates	Source: BirminghamLIVE
Black Deaths in Custody	Source: IRR News Network
Blair defeated over terror laws	Source: National Nine News
CCTV revamp bolsters custody suite operation for West Midlands Police	Source: IFSEC Global
Call for all casualties of conflict to be properly recorded	Source: Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Filming INJUSTICE Interview with maker Ken Fero	Source: The Multicultural Politic
Grenfell Tower Inquiry	Source: Grenfell Inquiry
Justice on Trial	Source: The Guardian
MoJ publish report under Rule 43 of the Coroners Rules	Source: IAP
Outsourcing abuse	Source: Medical Justice (pdf)
Police Street Triage national evaluation report (2016) 1st evaluation of schemes in the UK	Source: 4WardEver Library
The Innocence Squad	Source: Times Online
The Right to Know (Human Rights Act)	Source: Liberty Guide to Human Rights
Until you fight, change never happens	Source: IRR News Network

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Police Corruption News

Urgent action needed on Indigenous deaths in police custody

22 December 2019 In: All News, Custody Deaths & Abuse, Police Corruption No comments

Recent high-profile deaths of Indigenous people in police custody show a lack of meaningful progress despite over 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody says a Griffith University law professor. Read more

	January 2020
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		1 Mathew Ajibade Mathew Ajibade 1 January 2020 The death of a 22-year-old mentally ill man in an isolation cell in Georgia was ruled a homicide. Mathew Ajibade was handcuffed to a restraint chair on New Year's Day after he allegedly hit his girlfriend and broke a deputy's nose while in the midst of a bipolar episode. His family alleges police used a Taser on Ajibade while he was restrained in the chair, and then left him there unattended. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mathew-ajibade-22-year-olds-death-custody-georgia-ruled-homicide-n370616 See more details Oscar Grant Oscar Grant 1 January 2020 “We won’t rest until we have honoured Oscar Grant by winning justice for his family and ending police brutality in Oakland.” Those were the words of Dereca Blackmon. Dereca was one of the principal organizers of a rally and march of nearly 1,000 people on 7th January 2009, to protest the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant early on New Year’s Day by police on an Oakland transit station platform. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/oscar-grant See more details Adolph Grimes Adolph Grimes 1 January 2020 Adolph Grimes, a 22 year-old New Orleans native, living in Houston since Katrina, was back visiting family for the New Years holiday. In the early hours of January 1st an unmarked police vehicle filled with plain-clothes officers swooped in on Grimes as he was waiting for a relative in his parked car outside of his grandmother’s house. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/adolph-grimes See more details • • •	2 Victoria Robinson Victoria Robinson 2 January 2020 Victoria Robinson was found hanging in her prison cell at New Hall Prison on 2nd February 2005. Victoria was the fourth woman to die at the jail over the previous 12 months. In the previous year 13 women died, apparently at their own hands, in jails in England and Wales; three of them at New Hall. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/victoria-robinson See more details •	3 Godfrey Moyo Godfrey Moyo 3 January 2020 Godfrey Moyo, 25, was on remand at HMP Belmarsh, when in the early hours of 3rd January 2005 he suffered a series of violent and exhausting seizures after he was restrained for a lengthy period of time by prison officers. He was rushed to hospital from his shared cell at Belmarsh Prison apparently suffering breathing problems, but pronounced dead on arrival. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/godfrey-moyo See more details Shaleem Tindle Shaleem Tindle 3 January 2020 On 3 January 2018 Shaleem Tindle, aged 28, was engaged in a physical struggle with another man when he was fatally shot by Officer Joseph Mateu. Graphic footage of the shooting captured on Mateu’s body-worn camera prompted public outrage when it revealed Tindle had been shot three times in the back while raising at least one of his hands. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/shaleem-tindle See more details • •	4	5 Terrance Briscoe Terrance Briscoe 5 January 2020 Protesters in Sydney called for an independent inquiry into the death of an Aboriginal man in police custody in Alice Springs on 5 January 2012. www.socialism.com/fso-article/the-shocking-death-of-terrance-daniel-briscoe-family-rejects-police-investigating-police See more details •
6 Charles Singleton Charles Singleton 6 January 2020 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. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/police-medical-asylum/charles-singleton See more details •	7	8 Alison Colk Alison Colk 8 January 2020 Alison Colk was found hanging in her cell on 8th January 2009 at around 6.30am. Staff and paramedics attempted to revive her but she was pronounced dead 10 minutes after her discovery. She was not on suicide watch and the death was referred to the Prison Ombudsman. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/prison-restraint/alison-colk See more details •	9	10	11 Wanda Jean-Allen Wanda Jean-Allen 11 January 2020 Wanda Jean Allen was executed for the 1st December 1988 for the alledged murder of her lover, Gloria Leathers, in the parking lot of the Village Police Department (Oklahoma City). Allen was the first woman executed by Oklahoma since 1903 and the first black woman executed in the U.S. since 1954. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/prison-restraint/wanda-jean-allen See more details •	12 Ethan Saylor Ethan Saylor 12 January 2020 On 12 January 2011 Robert Ethan Saylor, a 26 year old with Down-syndrome, died in police custody after a dispute over an unpaid movie ticket. The cause of death, according to the autopsy, was asphyxiation. The autopsy also said Saylor’s larynx had been damaged. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/police-restraint/ethan-saylor See more details Dwayne Browne Dwayne Browne 12 January 2020 A police officer fatally shot Dwayne who was armed with a .38 calibre revolver as he was coming to the aid of his stepbrother following a gunpoint robbery. 26-year-old Dwayne Browne emerged from his East New York row house with a gun in hand. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/dwayne-browne See more details Colin Roach Colin Roach 12 January 2020 Colin Roach, aged 21 years, died on 12 January 1983 after receiving a fatal gunshot wound while in the custody of Stoke Newington police station, London. He is alleged by the police to have ‘shot himself’ in the mouth. Authorities alleged that he had committed suicide after entering the Stoke Newington Police Station. Many believed that there was reason to doubt this story and instead argued that Roach was murdered by police. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/shootings/colin-roach See more details • • •
13 Michael Menson Michael Menson 13 January 2020 A black musician died after being torched by three men, one of whom stole his personal stereo while he was in flames. Michael Menson, who had a history of mental illness, was racially abused and set alight in Edmonton, north London in January 1997. He died on 13th, from complications and two heart attacks caused by 30% burns to his back. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/miscarraiges/michael-menson See more details •	14	15 James Ashley James Ashley 15 January 2020 The family of an unarmed man who was shot dead by police have renewed their call for a public inquiry in to his death. Their demand came as the chief constable of Sussex Police made a personal apology for the killing of James Ashley by the force’s officers during a bungled drugs raid in 1998. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/shootings/james-ashley See more details •	16	17 Joseph Haynes Joseph Haynes 17 January 2020 A teenage boy has been shot and killed by police after a juvenile hearing at an Ohio court during an altercation, local officials said. Joseph Haynes, 16, was appearing for a hearing about a firearms charge against him at the Franklin County court in Columbus on Wednesday when a deputy sheriff struck him with a bullet in a hallway. www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/ohio-teen-joseph-haynes-killed-police-courthouse See more details Jonathan Malia Jonathan Malia 17 January 2020 The family of 24-year-old Jonathan Malia who died on 17 January 2013 under psychiatric, care have called for “justice” and “answers”. Jonathan, who himself sought help for a bipolar disorder and was transferred to a private secure unit in the course of his treatment. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/police-medical-asylum/jonathan-malia See more details • •	18 Sarah Campbell Sarah Campbell 18 January 2020 Sarah Campbell, who had suffered from clinical depression, was jailed for manslaughter in January 2003, a day later she was dead. The 18-year-old apparently died after taking an overdose of prescription drugs at Styal Prison in Cheshire. Her mother, Pauline, called for Prison Service changes until her own death in 2008. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/sarah-campbell See more details New Cross Fire New Cross Fire 18 January 2020 The New Cross Fire was a devastating house fire which killed 13 young black people during a birthday party in New Cross, southeast London on Sunday January 18, 1981. The black community were shocked by the indifference of the white population, and accused the London Metropolitan Police of covering up the cause, which they suspected was an arson attack motivated by racism. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/miscarraiges-2/the-new-cross-fire See more details Jason McPherson Jason McPherson 18 January 2020 Jason Oscar McPherson, 25, of Bentworth Road, East Acton, died in mysterious circumstances on 18th January 2007 at Notting Hill Police Station after being arrested by officers. He was travelling in a car with two other men when the vehicle was stopped by Metropolitan Police officers in St Annes Road, Ladbroke Grove. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/police-restraint/jason-oscar-mcpherson See more details Roger Sylvester Roger Sylvester 18 January 2020 The family of Roger Sylvester have expressed their anger after an inquest verdict that he was unlawfully killed by police was overturned by a High Court judge. Roger Sylvester, 30, from Tottenham, north London, died in January 1999 after being arrested by officers and taken to a psychiatric hospital. He later collapsed after being held down by a number of officers for 20 minutes in a padded room at the hospital. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-restraint-2/roger-sylvester See more details • • • •	19
20 Martin Luther King Day Martin Luther King Day 20 January 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.,[1] and sometimes referred to as MLK Day) is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year. Read more here : www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day Martin Luther King Jr. Biographical artin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Read more here > See more details Jake Hardy Jake Hardy 20 January 2020 17-year-old Jake died in hospital after he was found hanging in his cell at a young offender’s institution in Wigan. A Prison Service spokeswoman said: “HMYOI Hindley prisoner Jake Hardy was found hanging in his cell at approximately 11.45pm on Friday 20th January 2012. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/jake-hardy See more details • •	21	22 Karl Lewis Karl Lewis 22 January 2020 Karl Lewis, an 18 year-old man, was found hanging in his cell at HM Young Offenders’ Institute Stoke Heath at approximately 1am on the morning of 22 January 2005. Karl arrived at HMYOI Stoke Heath on 8 October the previous year. During the next three months he would be placed on four separate self harm monitoring forms due to the risk of suicide he posed. www.inquest.gn.apc.org/pdf/2006/karl_lewis_inquest_opening_pr.pdf See more details •	23 Lisa Marley Lisa Marley 23 January 2020 The brother of a Blackpool woman found hanged in prison today slammed the jail as “disgraceful” and called for an official investigation. Lisa Marley, a 32-year-old mother from South Shore, was discovered hanged in her cell at women’s HMP Styal in 2008. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/prison-restraint/lisa-marley See more details Pema Tsepak Pema Tsepak 23 January 2020 A Tibetan youth detained for his role in a non-violent protest was beaten to death by police, Tibetan sources say. Pema Tsepak, 24, a resident of Punda town in the Dzogang county of Tibet’s Chamdo prefecture, had been held in police custody for his role in a demonstration against Chinese rule in Tsawa Dzogang. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/police-restraint/pema-tsepak See more details • •	24 Nuur Saeed Nuur Saeed 24 January 2020 Nuur Saeed, aged 22, died on 24th January 2006 a fortnight after sustaining head injuries when he fell from a second-storey flat in Woolwich, London, after police had entered the property on a search warrant. A police spokesperson has said that on 10th January Nuur was in the property when officers attended. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/police-restraint/nuur-saeed See more details Osman Cameron Osman Cameron 24 January 2020 Osman Cameron The brother of remand prisoner, Alton Manning, who died following a violent struggle with prison officers nearly ten years previously, also died after being taken into police custody. Osman, aged 45, was found dead in his hospital room on 24th January 2005. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-restraint-2/osman-cameron See more details Jay Abatan Jay Abatan 24 January 2020 Jay Abatan, 42, from Eastbourne , was attacked while waiting at a taxi rank outside the Ocean Rooms club in 1999. He was set upon by two white males following a row as he waited at a taxi rank with his brother Michael. The father-of-two, who was celebrating promotion with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, hit his head on the pavement and lay in a coma for five days before his life support machine was turned off. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/miscarraiges/jay-abatan See more details Alex Kelly Alex Kelly 24 January 2020 Alex,aged 15, was found unconscious in his cell at HMYOI Cookham Wood in Kent. Staff attempted to resuscitate him before he was taken to hospital where he died the following evening. Alex, who was serving a 10-month sentence for burglary, had been identified as being at risk of suicide or self-harm, according to the Prison Service. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/alex-kelly See more details • • • •	25	26
27	28 Derek Bentley Derek Bentley 28 January 2020 Derek Bentley was 19 years-old when he was hung at Wandsworth Prison on the 28 January 1953. Derek was executed by the state for his role in the murder of Police Officer Sidney Miles. 40 years later in 1993 Derek was given a posthumous pardon after his Sister Iris tireless campaigned for him. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/miscarriages-2/derek-bentley See more details •	29	30	31 Adnan Rafiq Adnan Rafiq 31 January 2020 22 year old Adnan Rafiq, an inmate from Moseley, Birmingham, died after he was fatally beaten. The young man died in HMP Herell in January 2013 after the assault by a fellow inmate in the prison near Redditch. Adnan had suffered from multiple injuries such as skull fracture when he was punched kicked and had his head stepped on. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/miscarriages-2/adnan-rafiq-2 See more details •

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