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INQUEST in the media - archive
November 2009
Man 'died in police custody' (BBC News)
Inquest into death of service user Mickey Powell while in police custody opens after six year wait (Black
   Mental Health UK)
FAILED AGAIN: De Menezes family shocked as Blair aide gets top job in IPPC (Morning Star)
October 2009
If somebody dies we MUST know why... It's vital that our inquests stay public (The Mail on Sunday)
Outrage at government plan for secret inquests (The Independent)
The death of prisoner Baranovsky (The Independent)
Secret Met police inquiry into death of Blair Peach revealed (The Guardian)
August 2009
In Court Analysis: This is the modern world (Safety and Health Practitioner)
The victims who don’t touch A-list hearts need support too (The Times)
July 2009
Godfrey Moyo - prisoner or patient? (Institute of Race Relations )
'Publish report on Blair Peach's death' (Morning Star )
Blair Peach - a stone is turned (New Internationalist)
The crime of a shared cell (The Guardian )
Hundreds die in 'hidden world' of mental hospitals (The Observer)
Epileptic prisoner died after being held down by guards (Daily Telegraph)
Another death, another IPCC failure (The Guardian )
Police claim Ian Tomlinson could have been attacked by fake G20 cop (Evening Standard)
Police claimed G20 victim may have died after clashing with 'fake' officer (Daily Mail )
Police floated imposter theory over Ian Tomlinson's death at G20 protests (The Guardian )
June 2009
Blair Peach death secrecy review (BBC)
Met police chief willing to release Blair Peach report (The Guardian)
Does the Coroners and Justice Bill go far enough - and is there enough money (Law Society Gazette)
Open Blair files, say campaigners (Ealing Gazette)
Time to release secret information on deaths of protestors (The Guardian )
Call to publish 1979 death report (BBC)
Partner of man killed by Met officers calls for investigation to be made public (The Guardian )
Inquest to be held at last into prisoner's death (Rochdale Observer )
May 2009
Coroners Bill: now the battle begins for legal aid and juries (The Times)
Future insecure - Mary O'Hara on opposition to the threatened closure of secure care homes (The Guardian)
Listening and learning: lessons from the sorry saga of Clause 11 (The Times)
Straw abandons secret inquest plans (The Guardian )
'Coroner system unfit for purpose', INQUEST comment on the Coroners and Justice Bill (BMH UK)
April 2009
The political legacy of Blair Peach (Institute of Race Relations)
Learning from Hillsborough (The Guardian letters page)
G20 death: Why can't the IPCC learn? (The Guardian)
March 2009
Comment: Coroner system is unfit for purpose (Politics.co.uk)
Government fails to make the case for secret inquests (Guardian)
February 2009
Campaigners slam Styal after report (Manchester Evening News)
The Sketch: Holding inquests in secret: that'll shut everybody up (The Independent)
Mentally ill inmate commits suicide after catalogue of failings in the prison system (Black Mental Health UK)
Hanged inmate was failed by prison staff, says coroner (Guardian)
January 2009
Youths in custody: our duty of care (Guardian letters page)
Inquests into Troubles deaths to be kept secret (Guardian)
Fresh inquest ordered into teenager's death in prison (Guardian)
A-Z of Legislation: Coroners and justice bill 2009 (Guardian)
Family hit out at IPCC over death in custody (The Independent)
December 2008
The De Menezes verdict: will it give the family a sense of justice? (The Times )
Jails get go-ahead to continue using pain to control children(The Guardian)
What does verdict mean for the Met Police? (BBC Radio 4 Real Audio stream )
Secret inquest proposal 'on hold' (BBC)
November 2008
Family of man shot dead by police while under surveillance is denied inquest (The Independent)
October 2008
Firearms officers told to stop colluding over statements (The Guardian)
'Secret' inquest bid axed from Bill (Press Association)
Government abandons secret inquests in terror bill (The Guardian)
Secret inquests plans 'dropped' (BBC)
Another attack on our civil liberties (letter in The Guardian )
Children's Report (letter in The Guardian )
September 2008
Endangered species (The Economist )
Police shootings causing concern (The Independent )
August 2008
Prison officers join critics of Titan superjails  (The Guardian )
Titan prisons are not the solution (The Guardian)
Uproar at plan to hold inquests in secret (The Times )
Inquiries: seeing is believing (The Times )
July 2008
Prisoner died after less than a week in jail (Yorkshire Post)
This prison is unsafe (The Guardian )
June 2008
Fears on move to keep inquest evidence secret (The Observer )
May 2008
Prisons campaigner laid to rest (BBC Online)
Another death in custody: 'How did my son die?' (Socialist Worker)
Last Word obituaries programme on Pauline Campbell (BBC Radio 4)
Pauline Campbell - Tireless crusader against prison deaths (Obituary in The Guardian)
A mother who fought to the end (The Guardian)
Legislation update: Women offenders (The Times)
My son did not have to be shot, says barrister's father (The Independent )
April 2008
Women in custody: a shameful record of deaths in prison (Socialist Worker)
Alternatives to imprisoning women offenders (letter to the Daily Telegraph)
Deaths in detention (INQUEST article in Criminal Justice Matters)
(Daily Telegraph article about Dying on the Inside) More prisons are not the answer
(Article in The Times on Richard Chapman) How a walk turned into a funeral march
March 2008
Sick and suicidal: plight of women in UK jails (The Guardian)
Intervening in inquests will undermine confidence in verdicts (The Guardian)
Restraints on children 'must end' (BBC Online)
Reforming the Coroners' Courts (BBC Online)
January 2008
Rise in London prisoner suicides (BBC Online)
Families demand full inquests for deaths in secure hospitals (The Independent)
A scandal that still besets our jails (letter to The Guardian)
Petra Blanksby inquest begins (Community Care)
December 2007
An interview with INQUEST (Union Futures)
(Louise Giles) Prisons fail in duty of care for offenders
(Louise Giles) Prison service 'failed' woman who killed herself
(Azelle Rodney) Shot man's family back law change
November 2007
(Liam McManus) Inquiry as boy, 15, found hanged
(Paul Coker) Custody death ruling a 'betrayal'
(Martin Green) Ministry's regret over Martin's prison death
(Coroner Reform Bill) Brown's first brings rights duties and disappointment
Coroners Bill dropped from plans
October 2007
Concerns over 600 deaths in custody in last 12 months
(Unlocking the Truth) The Forgotten Bereaved
(Unlocking the Truth) No care in custody
Poignant and private - the last Diana peepshow
(Unlocking the Truth) When ignorance is never bliss
September 2007
(Anthony Redding) Grieving parents welcome findings
(Daniel Nelson) Family angry at 'pointless' inquest into man's death
(Daniel Nelson) The lost boy: Two promising footballers, different destinies
Report reveals 500 custody deaths
(Restraint of children) Young people have rights too
(Adam Rickwood) 'Punching' children in custody needs urgent review, says boy's death inquiry
August 2007
(Inquest delays) Fighting for military rights
Concern over prison suicides
July 2007
Coroner tells Straw to act now on restraint in child prisons
(Gareth Myatt) Adjournment debate urges inquiry
(Restraint of children in custody) Care concerns
Children 'at risk' from jail restraint
Damaged kids don't deserve violence
(Gareth Myatt) 'Nobody can hurt him now'
June 2007
(Gareth Myatt) Use of restraint blamed for prison death of boy, 15
(Gareth Myatt) Inquest attacks restraint system
Restraining children in custody is torture, nothing less
Putting vulnerable children at risk
Outrage over changes to child custody laws
(Adam Rickwood) 'What gives them the right to hit a child in the nose?'
(Adam Rickwood) 'At least I will be with Nana and Grandad'
May 2007
(Shahid Aziz) Violent white prisoner killed Asian cellmate after staff ignored warning
IPCC is premature on de Menezes case
(Corporate manslaughter) A perfect chance for MPs to have their say
(Adam Rickwood) I can't stay in here..I'll kill myself
(Adam Rickwood) 'No risk of self-harm': the official verdict on the youngest child to die in penal custody
March 2007
(Gareth Myatt) A Day Inside, part 3
 
     
 
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