28 March 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

National Conference on Policing & Mental Health

provided by: BMHUK
published: 27th March 2013

Health Minister Norman Lamb MP will be speaking at the first national conference on policing and mental health organised by leading agencies from the UK’s African Caribbean communities scheduled to take place at the Molineux Conference Centre in Wolverhampton, on Thursday 27th June 2013.

Entitled ‘Policing & Mental Health, Coercion or Care? ACCI & BMH UK National Conference 2013′ this event offers the first ever public forum where the most senior political figures in both mental health and policing will be able to discuss this issue with leading professionals across the West Midlands and beyond.

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17 March 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

6th anniversary of Gilly Mundy’s death

compiled from various sources: 4WardEver UK
published: 17th March 2013

17 March 2013 marked six years since the death of one of the stalwarts of the campaign movement against deaths in police custody and abuse by police and prison officers in the United Kingdom. Gilly saved three lives and restored the sight of two others when he donated his organs after his death in March 2007.

Gilly, who died suddenly aged 36, managed to cram so much into his own life and touch the lives of many in a positive, life-affirming way. For the last nine years of his life he had been senior caseworker for INQUEST, the charity that advises relatives of those who have died in custody.

4 March 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

South Norwood man held down by police dies four days later

originally by: This is Croydon
published: 18 February 2013

Olaseni Lewis was much-loved by friends and family, had high ambitions to study abroad and a bright future ahead of him. But his life was cut brutally short after dying in intensive care following a fatal police restraint. Nearly two and a half years and two postponed inquests later, David Churchill speaks to a family still battling for answers and justice.

Next month, instead of celebrating their son’s 26th birthday, Olaseni Lewis’s parents were destined for an inquest court room to hear the events surrounding his unexplained death.