26 July 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

INQUEST welcomes long-awaited implementation of Coroners and Justice Act 2009

originally by: INQUEST
published: 25 July 2013

Many of the provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 are finally being implemented on Thursday 25 July.

These will form the revised Coroners’ Rules and Regulations and are a significant step towards standardising the coronial system and gearing it more towards the needs of families.

INQUEST has been campaigning long and hard for root and branch reform of the coronial system, and was pleased to welcome the appointment of the Chief Coroner last September as the first step along this road.

13 July 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Jimmy Mubenga was unlawfully killed, inquest jury finds

originally by: The Guardian
published: 9 July 2013

An Angolan man who died after being restrained by three G4S guards as he was being deported from the UK was unlawfully killed, a jury has found.

Jimmy Mubenga, 46, died on board a plane at Heathrow airport that was bound for Angola in October 2010. At the end of an eight-week inquest, a jury of seven men and three women recorded a majority verdict of nine to one of unlawful killing after four days of deliberations.

The Crown Prosecution Service said it would reconsider its original decision not to bring criminal charges in the wake of the verdict.

19 May 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

British drug company acts to stop its products being used in US executions

originally by: The Guardian
published: 15 May 2013

A drug manufacturer based in Britain has vowed to add new restrictions to sales of its products in the US after it was revealed that it sold a batch of barbiturate to the Arkansas department of corrections, which intended to use it in executions.

Hikma Pharmaceuticals has promised to put in place “concrete steps to restrict the supply of its products for unintended uses” following the disclosure by the legal action charity Reprieve that a wholly owned subsidiary in the US had sold injectable phenobarbital to the Arkansas prison service which was seeking to devise a new way of killing its death-row inmates.