“Separate investigations into three deaths in immigration removal centres (IRC) in the past month have been launched by the police, amid growing concern about the treatment of detainees.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The death of the seventh teenager in custody this year has triggered calls for an independent inquiry into the imprisonment of young people which campaigners say needs a ‘complete overhaul’.”
The Independent, 9th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A 31-year-old woman has died in custody in York, prompting an investigation by the police watchdog.”
BBC News, 3rd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) into the death of a ‘vulnerable’ man in a police cell has found “staff failed” to protect him.”
BBC News, 25th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Failures by custody staff at Bath police station contributed directly to the death of a man found drunk in the street, an inquest has found.”
BBC News, 18th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Campaigners have voiced mounting concern over the recent deaths of five teenagers in five jails across England in just five weeks. In the latest case, Ryan Clark, aged 17, was found hanging in his cell at Wetherby young offenders’ institution, near Leeds, while on remand on 18 April. He was the first person under the age of 18 to die in prison custody for more than three and a half years.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The independent police watchdog is investigating after a father-to-be died in police custody following an apparent altercation at a pub in east London.”
The Guardian, 19th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Inquest jury finds serious system failure at secure training centre where Adam Rickwood, 14, killed himself.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A second inquest into the death of the youngest person to die in custody begins today after a high court battle. Adam Rickwood was just 14 when he died in August 2004. He was found hanging in his cell in Hassockfield Secure Training Centre (STC), County Durham, hours after he was restrained by staff.”
The Guardian, 10th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There were perceptible and sound policy reasons why the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio did not form part of the Strasbourg jurisprudence, save when the matter came to just satisfaction. To introduce it into a claim under the Human Rights Act 1998 would be to create a barrier which citizens of other member states did not face.”
WLR Daily, 16th December 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A total of 333 people have died in or following police custody over the past 11 years, but no officer has ever been successfully prosecuted, according to a watchdog’s report.”
The Guardian,
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Ministry of Defence is refusing to disclose whether any individuals have died in British military custody in Afghanistan, raising concerns that a number of people may have been killed during interrogation.”
The Guardian, 13th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An inquiry into the death of a County Durham man in police custody will focus on the actions of arresting officers, a watchdog has said.”
BBC News, 13th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Last August, two of the UK’s most notorious prisoners were released from prison.”
BBC News, 6th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Ministry of Defence is facing a further series of court battles that may shed more damaging light on the conduct of British troops in Iraq, after it emerged that many more civilians died in army custody than previously thought.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A murderer who killed one of the country’s most notorious paedophiles while in a Cambridge prison has had his minimum jail term cut by 10 years.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Ministry of Justice has announced today that there were 60 apparently self-inflicted deaths among prisoners in England and Wales in 2009.”
Ministry of Justice, 1st January 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A watchdog’s report into the death of a man shortly after he was freed from custody says police should have sought medical advice while he was a prisoner.”
BBC News, 1st October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The head of a Metropolitan police station where a man died has been recorded on tape promising that CCTV cameras were working and tape from them had been seized – weeks before investigators told the man’s family that the footage was missing.”
The Guardian, 21st August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Independent Advisory Panel, a key part of the newly formed Ministerial Council on Deaths in Custody, has commenced its initial work programme.”
Ministry of Justice, 17th August 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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