By Maria Ahmed, Amy Taylor and Derren Hayes
Racism ‘still at the core of the police service’
More than five years after the murder of Stephen Lawrence murder
inquiry, another major report has concluded that racism is still at
the heart of the police service. The Commission for Racial Equality
found that police forces in England and Wales were still
“frozen solid at the core” in their attempts to handle
race issues.
Source:- The Independent Wednesday 9 March 2005 page
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Officers at private jail ‘ignored heroin
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Prison officers at Kilmarnock prisoner turned a blind eye to heroin
abuse and endangered lives by pretending to make checks on suicidal
inmates, an undercover BBC documentary at a privately run jail
claims today.
A reporter found that officers at the prison, where seven prisoners
have killed themselves since it opened in 1999, failed to make the
regulation half-hourly checks on potentially suicidal inmates. The
prison is one of five run by the Premier Custodial Group, which
also operated three secure centres for young offenders.
Source:- The Independent Wednesday 9 March 2005 page
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Race case award
A black housing officer who claimed she was passed over for
promotion 11 times in two years, was awarded £82,050,95.
Caroline Duncan told the Commission for Racial Equality that she
had endured racial discrimination and victimisation at Sandwell
Council in the West Midlands.
Source:- The Times Wednesday 9 March 2005 page 9
Babysitter murdered boy by hitting his head on
banister
A babysitter faces life in jail after she was found guilty
yesterday of murdering a toddler by repeatedly ramming his head
against a banister rail.
Suzanne Holdsworth had been looking after two-year-old Kyle Fisher
at her home in Hartlepool, Teeside, last July.
Source:- The Times Wednesday 9 March 2005 page 27
Only one out of 15 asylum seekers deported
Only one out of every 15 asylum seekers whose claims have failed
are deported from Britain it was revealed last night.
Just 4, 100 out of 62, 700 such asylum seekers were deported
immigration minister Des Browne admitted in a parliamentary
question yesterday.
Source:- Daily Mail Wednesday March 9 page 20
Paedophile with long list of sex attacks was given
school cleaning job
A paedophile got a job as a cleaner in a church school despite
having a history of sex offences, a jury heard yesterday.
Jim Aldous, 63, was first convicted in 1957 for sexually assaulting
a seven-year-old girl.
He got a job as a cleaner at St Bede’s school in Cambridge in
2000.
Aldous was jailed for life for sexually assaulting four boys at
Cambridge Crown Court yesterday.
Source:- The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 9 March page
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Clarke: despot or realist?
Home secretary reveals his frustration at criticism
If Labour wins a third term and Charles Clarke keeps his job he
would like to tackle big issues such as health and education in
prison.
He said: ”We are the government of health and education. Who
has the least? Those in the penal system.”
Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 9 March 2005 page 4
Couple ‘had death pact’ over sick son
Andrew Wragg killed his terminally ill son after he and his wife
agreed the boy’s death was for the best, a court heard
yesterday. On the sixth day of his trail for the murder of his
10-year-old son, Jacob, Wragg said his wife, Mary, from whom he is
now divorced “was completely aware” of what was
happening on the night of the murder.
Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 9 March 2005 page 11
Clash of ideals
Against the odds, a Hull cooperative set up 20 years ago by a group
of ‘green anarchists’ is still providing quality,
affordable housing. That’s precisely what ministers want
– so why are the authorities preparing to knock them
down?
Source:- The Society Guardian Wednesday 9 March 2005 page
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Risk strategy
Police and health professionals are poles apart on how best to deal
with potentially dangerous mentally ill people.
Source:- The Society Guardian Wednesday 9 March 2005 pages
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