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	October 2019
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
	1	2 Sandra Jean Allen Sandra Jean Allen 2 October 2019 On 2nd October 2006, Sandra Jean Allen, a frail and vulnerable mental health patient died whilst in the custody of the Highgate Mental Health Centre in North London. The circumstances of her death raise important questions for today’s mental health sector as her complex needs were unable to be properly cared for. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-medical-asylum/sandra-jean-allen See more details Paul Day Paul Day 2 October 2019 An inmate concerned for his safety following claims that he was an informant took his own life at Durham’s Frankland prison. He was called a “grass” within 20 minutes of arriving at a North-East prison. Paul Day, aged 31, of Basildon, Essex, had been serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for robberies. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/prison-restraint/paul-day See more details • •	3 Miriam Carey Miriam Carey 3 October 2019 On 3 October 2013, 34-year-old Miriam Carey died in what is understood to be an unusual situation. She was shot dead by police in a vehicle altercation outside the White House in Washington D.C. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/miriam-carey See more details •	4 John Brady John Brady 4 October 2019 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. Following his arrest by the PSNI and taken to Strand Road. On Saturday morning the 40 year old met with his legal team, led by John Finucane. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-restraint-2/john-brady See more details Herman Wallace Herman Wallace 4 October 2019 In October 2013 Herman Wallace, who spent 41 years in solitary confinement and who was dying of cancer, was released from prison just days before he died. US district chief judge Brian Jackson in Baton Rouge denied the state's motion seeking to block his earlier order overturning Herman's 1974 murder conviction. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/miscarraiges/herman-wallace See more details Surjit Singh Chhokar Surjit Singh Chhokar 4 October 2019 A police force was been told to reopen the investigation into the murder of an Asian man in 1998. In 2012 the family of Surjit Singh Chhokar met with Scotland's top law officer who confirmed Strathclyde Police have been instructed to carry out further investigations into his murder under double jeopardy legislation. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/miscarraiges/surjit-singh-chhokar See more details Jack Lamar Roberson Jack Lamar Roberson 4 October 2019 Roberson's family is not the first to question police for fatal shootings. In September 2013, a North Carolina police officer shot former football player Jonathan Ferrell 10 times leaving his parents and the local NAACP chapter questioning whether race played a role in the shooting. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/jack-lamar-roberson-police-fatally-shoot_n_4065116 See more details • • • •	5 Cynthia Jarrett Cynthia Jarrett 5 October 2019 On 5th October 1985 four police officers went to search the home of Mrs Cynthia Jarrett, near the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham. Mrs Jarrett’s son Floyd was in custody at Tottenham police station having given a false name when found in a car with an inaccurately made out tax disc. The visit caused panic among some of the occupants, and in the furore Jarrett’s mother, Mrs Cynthia Jarrett, collapsed. She was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/miscarraiges/cynthia-jarrett See more details •	6
7 Andrew Jordan Andrew Jordan 7 October 2019 Andrew Jordan from Erith was 28 years old. He was married with a four year old daughter. Although he had a history of mental illness, he had “no history of violence or criminal activity” say his family. He died on 7th October 2003 after up to 10 police officers burst into his house. He died with two black eyes, cuts to both his eyes and a damaged nose. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-medical-asylum/andrew-jordan See more details •	8 Vonderrit Myers Jr Vonderrit Myers Jr 8 October 2019 Vonderrit Myers Jr, aged 18 years-old, was killed on 8 October 2014 when he was shot multiple times by an off-duty St. Louis police officer, Jason Flanery, who was working a secondary job for a private security company at the time. He was struck by up to eight bullets, “All but one gunshot wound were to the lower extremities. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/vonderrit-myers-jr See more details •	9 Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler 9 October 2019 Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist, former member of the Nazi Party and possibly the most famous “Righteous Gentile” who is credited with saving as many as 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. His story was brought to international acclaim by the 1982 novel Schindler’s Ark and the 1993 film, Schindler’s List. Schindler was born April 28, 1908, in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary, what is now Moravia in the Czech Republic. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/tributes/tributes-brothers/oskar-schindler See more details •	10 World Day Against the Death Penalty World Day Against the Death Penalty 10 October 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty was launched in 2003 by the Coalition Against the Death Penalty, and has been held on 10 October every year since then. The day is a focus for international action against capital punishment, with the ultimate goal of the worldwide abolition of the death penalty. See more global events here: www.worldcoalition.org/Calendar-of-events-for-World-Day-2017 See more details Thomas Orchard Thomas Orchard 10 October 2019 Thomas Orchard, 32, a caretaker at St Thomas Parish Church, died in police custody on 10 October 2012 in Exeter, Devon. He was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and taken by police van to Heavitree Road Police Station. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-medical-asylum/thomas-orchard See more details • •	11	12 Jimmy Mubenga Jimmy Mubenga 12 October 2019 Jimmy Mubenga, aged 46, died on 12th October 2010 after security guards attempted to deport him to Angola on a British Airways flight. He died after being restrained by three guards from G4S, a company that was contracted by the UK Border Agency. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-medical-asylum/jimmy-mubenga See more details Mandy Pearson Mandy Pearson 12 October 2019 37-year-old Mandy Pearson from West Yorkshire died after being found hanging in her cell at New Hall Prison on 12th October 2004. Mandy was serving a five month sentence for assault, and was found suspended in a dormitory in the prison. She was taken to a hospital outside the prison where she was pronounced dead the following afternoon. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/prison-restraint/mandy-pearson See more details • •	13 Peter Barnes Peter Barnes 13 October 2019 An inquest today heard that lessons should be learned after a patient was found dead in the grounds of a Bradford psychiatric hospital one week after he went missing on an unsupervised cigarette break. A post-mortem examination has revealed Mr Barnes was likely to have hanged himself only a few hours after he went missing. www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/10783822.Peter_Barnes_inquest___Lessons_should_be_learned See more details •
14	15 Ricky Reel Ricky Reel 15 October 2019 Ricky Reel was a 20 year old Brunell University student, and was last seen alive on 15th October 1997 after a night out with three friends in Kingston upon Thames, south west London. The four were confronted by two white men who shouted racial abuse and hit two of Ricky’s companions. The student’s body was pulled from the Thames by a police diver six days later. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/miscarraiges-2/ricky-reel See more details Giles Freeman Giles Freeman 15 October 2019 Giles Freeman died on the 15th October 2002 aged 37 in Slough Police station. He was suffering with disordered thinking and was a vulnerable person. He had a history of admissions to the local Wexham Park Hospital. His mental state had been deteriorating for some weeks prior to his death. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-restraint-2/giles-freeman See more details • •	16	17 Robert Dziekanski Robert Dziekanski 17 October 2019 Robert Dziekanski, a 41 year old Polish immigrant, died moments after being tasered five times in a holding area at Vancouver International Airport on 17th October 2007. Police and witnesses conflicted regarding their recollection of the number of jolts Robert is alleged to have received. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/police-restraint/robert-dziekanski See more details •	18	19	20 Luis Ramirez Luis Ramirez 20 October 2019 On 20th October 2005 Luis Ramirez, a Hispanic man, was executed after being convicted of hiring Edward Bell to kill 19-year-old Nemicio Nandin, on 8th April 1998. Ramirez’s conviction was largely based on the testimony of Tim Hoogstra who claims that Bell informed him of the murder and of Ramirez’s role in the murder. Nandin was dating Ramirez’s ex-wife, Dawn Holquin, at the time of the murder. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/prison-restraint/luis-ramirez See more details •
21	22 Andy Lopez Andy Lopez 22 October 2019 13 year-old Andy Lopez was walking to his friend’s house in Santa Rosa, California on 22 October 2013 when two Sonoma County deputies (Michael Schemmel and Erick Gelhaus) spotted the young boy carrying what they thought was an AK-47 assault rifle which was in fact a toy airsoft gun that fires plastic projectiles. Andy was shot dead. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/andy-lopez See more details •	23	24 Paul Calvert Paul Calvert 24 October 2019 Pentonville prison has rightly been criticised over the death of Paul Calvert in October, 2004. Mr Calvert, who had a history of self-harm and depression, was found hanged in his cell and his death raises very serious issues about the state’s culpability when vulnerable people die in prisons. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/prison-restraint/paul-calvert See more details •	25	26 UFFC Annual Rally UFFC Annual Rally 26 October 2019 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN, UK The United Families & Friends Campaign is a coalition of families and friends of those that have died in the custody of police and prison officers as well as those who are killed in secure immigration units and psychiatric hospitals. Note: Normally takes place on the last Saturday of October. www.4wardeveruk.org/resources-events/uffc-annual-rally See more details •	27
28	29 Ian Bush Ian Bush 29 October 2019 Ian Bush, a 22-year-old sawmill worker, was shot in the back of the head 20 minutes after his arrest on 29th October 2005, for holding an open beer can in the parking lot of a hockey arena in Houston, British Columbia. At the time of his death, he was in the process of being released by the police agency. www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/ian-bush See more details •	30	31 David ‘Rocky’ Bennett David ‘Rocky’ Bennett 31 October 2019 The sister of mental health patient David ‘Rocky’ Bennett broke down as she called for action to prevent more black men dying while in the care of the NHS. She said his death, after he was restrained by staff at a clinic in Norwich, was a “total disgrace.” www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-medical-asylum/david-rocky-bennett See more details •

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