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BLANKNEY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
On this day in 1982, t he notorious East End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray (pictured) were allowed out of prison for their mother's funeral. Violet Kray, 72, died of cancer the previous week. It was the first time the Kray's, 49, had been seen in public since being sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1969. Security was tight for the funeral service in east London. The brothers arrived separately...
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The Wire (Free subscription) | 22/06/2009
The man suspected of killing investigative journalist Veronica Guerin died in his prison cell on the Isle of Wight on Friday morning. Patrick Holland was serving an eight-year sentence in Parkhurst prison for a kidnap plot. The 70-year-old has always denied shooting the Sunday Independent crime reporter in June 1996 and has never been charged with her [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/06/2009
PATRICK ‘DUTCHY’ Holland, the career criminal named in court as the man who shot crime journalist Veronica Guerin, has died in a British jail aged 70.The Dubliner and former US marine was found dead at 6am yesterday in his cell in Parkhurst prison, Isle of Wight.
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Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 21/05/2009
The HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight, a key prison housing violent offenders, lacks basic levels of safety and decency
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Politics Index (Free subscription) | 21/05/2009
Crime Central - Times Online - WBLG: Anne Owers demands ethnic food for Travellers in HMP Parkhurst In Parkhurst nick on the Isle of Wight Dame Anne Owers, the chief inspector of prisons, found a significant number of Travellers whom she urged four years ago should be treated as separate ethnic group. But in an unannounced inspection last year Dame Anne discovered that the prison had not met her recommendation...
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An Englishman's Castle (Free subscription) | 21/05/2009
Crime Central - Times Online - WBLG: Anne Owers demands ethnic food for Travellers in HMP Parkhurst In Parkhurst nick on the Isle of Wight Dame Anne Owers, the chief inspector of prisons, found a significant number of Travellers whom...
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World (Free subscription) | 20/05/2009
Chief inspector of prisons Anne Owers reports having found "substantial shortcomings" at Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, including a disabled prisoner unable to shower for 6 months because staff had not been 'trained' to push his wheelchair and another disabled prisoner unable to wash for a year because staff would not carry him to the showers.
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 20/05/2009
LONDON (Reuters) - Bullying and violence are endemic at Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight with 75 percent of vulnerable prisoners reportedly feeling unsafe, the chief inspector of prisons said in a damning report on Wednesday.
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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 20/05/2009
Another disabled prisoner went six months without a shower because of a lack of staff trained to push his wheelchair, an official inspection found.Inspectors said HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight, where both men were held, lacked basic levels of s 2 Vote(s)
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