22 February 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Feeling passionately about custody deaths

provided by: Tippa Naphtali
first published: 1st November 2008

Hundreds of people have died in custody in Britain over the last 30+ years. A disproportionate number of these were African-Caribbean men. Between 1969 and 1999 over one thousand people died in police custody alone, not counting deaths in prison and psychiatric institutions. No one has ever been convicted for any of these deaths.

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18 February 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Young footballer died from misadventure, jury rules

originally by: BBC News
published: 20th February 2012

An inquest jury has returned a verdict of death by misadventure in the case of a young footballer who died when a bag of cocaine split inside his body. Former Nottingham Forest academy player Reece Staples, 19, died after being arrested [by police] in June 2009.

The jury heard he had swallowed 19 packets of cocaine to smuggle them into the UK after returning from a holiday in Costa Rica. His father said he hoped others would be deterred from trying the same thing.

The inquest, at Nottingham’s Council House, heard Mr Staples had been arrested for criminal damage at his aunt and uncle’s house in the Old Basford area of Nottingham two days after arriving back in the UK.

13 February 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Second funeral held for Christopher Alder

all credits: BBC News
published: 9th February 2012

The funeral of a man whose body was discovered 11 years after his family thought they had buried him is understood to have been held. Christopher Alder’s body was discovered in a Hull mortuary in November 2011. South Yorkshire Police is investigating the circumstances that led to another body, thought to be that of Grace Kamara, being buried in his grave at the city’s Northern Cemetery.

The body in Mr Alder’s original grave will be exhumed later this month. The mistake was discovered when the body of Ms Kamara was about to be released from the mortuary for burial last year and Mr Alder’s body was found instead.