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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
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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
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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
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Surjit Singh Chhokar
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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