CAUTION: Some strong language!
Award winning film director Bill Maloney is refused entrance to the Inner London Family Proceedings Court to support a young couple who were having their 10 month old baby girl taken away from them.
This is yet another tragic example of the British authorities taking children from young parents right at the point of birth.
originally published by: Bexley Times 24
4th February 2010
Police officers laughed and joked about a young man they saw die on the floor of a cell, an inquest heard.
Paul Coker, 32, died at Plumstead Police Station, two hours after he was arrested at the house of Lucy Chadwick, on suspicion of breaching the peace, in the early hours of August 6, 2005.
The jury at his inquest at Southwark Coroners Court this week, heard how he struggled with several police officers and tried to jump out of a first floor window.
originally published by: The Independent
31st January 2010
A man left brain damaged is demanding a public inquiry into “systemic failings” of police and private security staff which almost killed him.
Gary Reynolds, 41, an accomplished marathon runner and self-employed painter and decorator, was found in a coma in his cell a few hours after he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly in Brighton city centre in 2008.
His lawyers believe the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) failed to investigate properly the circumstances surrounding his arrest and subsequent treatment in the police station, which has resulted in a “deeply flawed report” that “fails to hold those implicated to account”.
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