Inquiry Chair, Ms Kate Eves officially launches the start of the Inquiry with her Opening Statement and Call for Evidence. The official launch comes following the Government converting the Prison and Probation Ombudsman investigation of Brook House into a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005...
The inquest into the self-inflicted death of Dean George in HMP Swansea has concluded, with the jury identifying multiple critical failures that contributed to his death on 10 April 2016. The family were represented by DPG’s Clare Richardson and Rosa Potter and Kirsten Heaven from...
HM Senior Coroner for Worcestershire has sent a Prevention of Future Death report to the Chief Constable of West Midlands after the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Jason Devoti ; Jason died on 9th October 2018. The Coroner in a ruling dated...
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (‘IICSA’) has issued its report about the use of civil orders, disclosure and barring and extra territorial prosecutions of child sex offenders. The IICSA report has issued recommendations to the Government which include to ‘coordinate the development of a...
An inquest jury has returned its conclusion in the case of the third of five men to die at HMP Nottingham in a month from 13 September 2017. Anthony Solomon died on 27 September 2017 from the lethal effects of smoking a psychoactive substance known...
The Court of Appeal has emphatically rejected the Government’s application for permission to appeal against a judgment of Mrs Justice May of 14 June 2019 on the investigation into human rights abuses at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. The judge had ordered that the investigation...
The jury in the inquest into the killing of Cherylee Shennan has unanimously concluded that the authorities’ failure to recall her killer after her family reported domestic violence contributed to her death. Cherylee, aged 40, was subjected to a brutal attack by Paul O’Hara at her...
An inquest jury yesterday delivered a damning conclusion after hearing evidence over 6 days about Andrew’s time in Nottingham prison in August and September 2017. Andrew was found hanging in his cell on the prison’s induction wing of HMP Nottingham on 12 September 2017, and...
The jury in the inquest into the double shooting of Christine and Lucy Lee has unanimously concluded that five different failings by Surrey police contributed to the two women’s deaths. Christine (66) and Lucy (40) were shot by John Lowe on 23 February 2014 at Keepers...
The inquest into the death of Marcus McGuire concluded on 17 June with the jury finding his death was a suicide, with multiple possibly causative failures by HMP Birmingham including a lack of mental health assessment and issues with suicide and self-harm procedures (known as...