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Remembering Pauline Campbell : Six Years On…

Benjamin Zephaniah & Pauline Campbellby: Remember Pauline
published: 24 April 2013

Pauline was found dead on 15th May 2008, lying on the grave of her daughter Sarah. Sarah tragically died in January 2003 whilst in HMP Styal.

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Picture: Pauline Campbell with Benjamin Zephaniah, Cousin of Mikey Powell @ the ‘Moving Forward Together’ event held in Birmingham, 2005.

4WardEver UK set up a website in memory of Pauline shortly after her death was announced, and maintains this site in her honour and to ensure that stories related to the deaths of women and young girls within the prison and psychiatric system are kept in the public eye.

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Birmingham pub bombings: Relatives slam police decision not to launch new inquiry

Birmingham Pub Bombings
Birmingham pub bombings – credit http://www.wikipedia.org

source: Mirror Online
published: 9 April 2014

A police decision not to have a new inquiry into the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings has been slammed by relatives of one victim as it was revealed 35 pieces of evidence had been binned.

Julie Hambleton and her brother Brian, who lost their 18-year-old sister Maxine in the November 21 blasts, were given the news at a meeting with West Midlands Police Chief Constable Chris Sims.

Speaking afterwards, Julie said she felt let down “in the most diabolical manner”. She added: “I am ashamed to be British today.”

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‘Shocking Britain’: controversial roll-out of Tasers

Drawing Taser Gunby: The Justice Gap
published: March 2014

In an interview with The Justice Gap, the national lead for the police force on armed policing, raised the prospect of every officer being kitted out with a Taser weapon.

‘If you talk to the average police officer on the ground they will say: “We want all to be issued with Taser for our own protection, and to protect the public”,’ said Simon Chesterman, deputy chief constable of West Mercia Police.

‘Shocking Britain’ is a documentary made by Matt Spencer for www.thejusticegap.com.

As of last year, there were 14,700 officers trained to use Taser in the UK – see Alastair Logan OBE (Tasers: the ‘non-lethal’ weapon reckoned to have caused more than 500 deaths).

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