12 November 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Prisoner on suicide watch took overdose of medicine

originally by: Oxford Mail
published: 12th November 2013

A prisoner on suicide watch took a fatal overdose just days after burning the initials DNR for ‘do not resuscitate’ into his chest, an inquest has heard.

David Ward, 45, was serving 18 years at Bullingdon Prison, near Bicester, for eight counts of rape and two of sexual assault on a teenage girl.

He had a history of mental health problems and, in August last year, used an incense stick to burn the initials in two-inch high letters into his chest. Although he was put on suicide watch, he was able to overdose on anti-depressants and pain medication.

11 November 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

US double standards and the world’s deadliest war since World War II

by: Stop the War Coalition
published: 8 November 2013

The US has provided military training, arms, intelligence and financing to Rwanda’s military who in turn sponsors and directs war criminals who commit war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Congo.

Earlier this year, President Obama asked how one might weigh the “tens of thousands who’ve been killed in Syria versus the tens of thousands who are currently being killed in the Congo?” But as tragic and devastating as the Congo conflict is, Congolese are not asking for the United States – or the international community – to militarily intervene.

8 November 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Marine guilty of Afghanistan murder

originally by: BBC News
published: 8 November 2013

A Royal Marine has been found guilty by a military court of murdering an injured Afghan insurgent, in what the prosecution called “an execution”. The sergeant, known only as Marine A, faces a mandatory life term over the shooting of the unknown man while on patrol in Helmand Province in 2011.

Two other marines were cleared.

Brigadier Bill Dunham, of the Royal Marines, said the murder – the first case of its kind – was “a truly shocking and appalling aberration”.