9 April 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Kingsley Burrell inquest: ‘A naughty policeman hit daddy’

source: The Voice Online
published: 7 April 2015

An inquest into the death of Kingsley Burrell, who died following contact with police in March 2011, heard how his four-year-old son told his family “a naughty black policeman hit daddy in the back of the ambulance.”

Little Kayden Burrell was with his 29-year-old father when he was taken by ambulance to a Birmingham mental health unit. Kingsley had called 999 for help because he feared he was about to be shot as he visited a local shop with his little boy.

29 March 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Britain’s first titan-sized prison gets green light

source: The Guardian
published: 27 March 2015

The contract to build Britain’s first titan prison holding more than 2,100 inmates has been signed just days before next Monday’s deadline, when parliament officially dissolves for the general election.

But Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, has failed to get approval in time for his other flagship prison project, a 320-place “secure college” or supersized youth jail costing £80m, which was to be the first of a network to replace the current system of youth offender institutions and secure training centres.

27 March 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Police not to blame for Wolverhampton woman’s custody death

source: Express & Star
published: 26 March 2015

Sharmila Ullah, of Fourth Avenue, Wolverhampton, was held at Bloxwich Police Station in July last year after being arrested for shoplifting. Smethwick Coroners Court was told the mother-of-four, better known as Millie, had been taken to Walsall Manor Hospital after suffering abdominal pain and vomiting on July 9.

Senior coroner Zafar Siddique was told she was assessed and given medication before being discharged back to custody. She was also examined by a nurse at the custody suite on July 10.