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Victoria Robinson
Victoria Robinson
2 February 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
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Shane Tuohey
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Devin Brown
Devin Brown
7 February 2020
Devin Brown was shot dead by an LA police officer at the end of a three minute car chase in which he was either the driver or passenger of a vehicle that may or may not have been stolen.
Candles and balloons adorn the corner next to Tony’s Tyres where the car mounted the kerb before reversing towards the police car.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/devin-brown
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Tom Collister
Tom Collister
7 February 2020
The father of a graffiti artist found hanged in jail has hit out at the “incompetence” of the prison system. An inquest into the death of 23-year-old Tom Collister, from Penge, revealed multiple failures in the care provided.
Tom was found dead in his prison cell at HMP Camp Hill in Newport on the Isle of Wight on the morning of 7th February 2009.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/tom-collister
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Antonio Zambrano-Montes
Antonio Zambrano-Montes
10 February 2020
Antonio Zambrano-Montes, was killed after police fired on him 17 times for throwing rocks at passing cars. Zambrano, 35, who reportedly had exhibited erratic behavior in the past, was unarmed.
The incident was captured on video and has been viewed on YouTube over two million times.
www.tinyurl.com/o49g29y
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Lee Sean McArdle
Lee Sean McArdle
12 February 2020
Lee was 19 years old when he was arrested on 26th January 2005 for stealing three bottles of shampoo from a local supermarket near his grandmothers’ home, where he was living at that time.
Lee was a drug mis-user. He had been using heroin and crack cocaine for three years. He was on a methadone detox program supported by a local organisation in the community.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/lee-sean-mcardle
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Pat Finucane
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Letty Scott
Letty Scott
14 February 2020
Letty Marie Scott (nee Gibson) Nupanunga, of the Anmatyerre nation in Central Australia, passed away, aged 56. Letty was a lifelong campaigner for justice — especially on the issue of black deaths in custody, which touched her life indelibly.
Letty was perhaps best known because of her husband, Douglas Bruce Scott, who died under suspicious circumstances, found hanged in a prison cell.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/tributes/tributes-sisters/letty-scott
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Anthony Redding
Anthony Redding
14 February 2020
Anthony Redding, aged 16, was reported to had been on a five-minute suicide watch in the health care wing of the Brinsford Young Offenders’ Institution near Wolverhampton by prison authorities, but was found hanged on 14th February 2000.
Police arrested Anthony for stealing a car. He was charged with taking the car, driving without insurance and without a license.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/anthony-redding
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Cameron Todd Willingham
Cameron Todd Willingham
17 February 2020
Strapped to a gurney in Texas’ death chamber [on 17 February 2004], just moments from his execution for setting a fire that killed his three daughters, Cameron Todd Willingham declared his innocence one last time;
“I am an innocent man, convicted of a crime I did not commit,” Willingham said angrily. “I have been persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do.”
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/prison-restraint/cameron-todd-willingham
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Lynette White
Lynette White
20 February 2020
Missing documents that sparked the collapse of a police corruption case – in which officers were accused of fitting up three innocent men for the murder of a prostitute – have been found intact, despite claims the files had been shredded.
Police officers were accused of fabricating a case which led to the wrongful jailing of three innocent men for the murder of Lynette White in 1988.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/miscarraiges-2/lynette-white
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Clinton McCurbin
Clinton McCurbin
20 February 2020
Clinton McCurbin died on the 20th February 1987, while being arrested for alledged shoplifting and use of a stolen credit card, in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
He died of asphyxia only minutes after two officers were called to the shop. His death outraged the black community. At the later inquest, to the dismay of the family, the jury returned a verdict of misadventure.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/police-restraint/clinton-mccurbin
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Larry Davis
Larry Davis
20 February 2020
In 1986, the New York Police Department (NYPD) attempted to kill Larry Davis when serving a search warrant at a Bronx apartment.
He was shot in the head at point blank range, but the bullet did not penetrate his head, and after he fell to the floor from the impact of the blast, he returned fire and shot 6 NYPD officers and escaped out a window.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/miscarraiges/larry-davis
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Trayvon Martin
Trayvon Martin
26 February 2020
Trayvon’s killer, George Zimmerman, admitted to police that he shot Trayvon in the chest on 26 February 2012.
Zimmerman, the community’s self appointed “neighborhood watch leader,” called the police to report a suspicious person when he saw Travyon, a young black man, walking from the store. Protestors were angered by the time it took to charge Zimmerman for the murder.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/miscarraiges/trayvon-martin
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