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simon israel @simonisrael

Former Senior Home Affairs Correspondent @channel4news.

Joined October 2009
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Falsified welfare checks by prison officers and a nurse's faked medical notes contributed to the death of vulnerable inmate who spent 53 days in seg with no radio,no TV and no phone. CCTV tells some of this story. channel4.com/news/falsified-… via @Channel4News

Falsified welfare checks led to deaths of vulnerable inmates, inquest told

A coroner is to refer all five self-inflicted deaths within nine months at a prison in Nottinghamshire to police, for investigation into possible misconduct in public office.

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Cranston Inquiry chair says some of the deaths in the 2021 channel boat migrant tragedy were avoidable. At least 31 people drowned when their boat was swamped but mistakes made by HM Coastguard in handling distress calls that night and overall failure in gathering information
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A multi-million pound lawsuit is underway for the unlawful detention of Sri Lankan Tamil men,women and children for 3 years on the British Indian Ocean Territory of Diego Garcia
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Lawyer for some families, Simon Robinson at Duncan Lewis said " their unlawful detention was at a cost of £108,000 a day to the UK taxpayer. The substantial damages which will now be owed will add to these costs...."
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Mr Robinson added "These costs escalated because of the egregious delay by the Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary in agreeing to end their detention and relocate them"
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The boy in the cowboy outfit – my tribute to Erwin James 1957 – 2024 At the age of seven, with the loss of his mother in a car accident and his father turning to drink, put Erwin on a pathway he never thought imaginable. thecriminaljusticeblog.com/2…

The boy in the cowboy outfit – my tribute to Erwin James 1957 – 2024

Many have seen the small black and white photo of a young boy in his favourite play outfit, an image that was etched in the memories of a once happy young boy. But circumstances and a grief-stricke…

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'Treated like a rag doll'. Inquest jury finds police unlawfully killed vulnerable hospital patient with unauthorised restraint and blames nursing staff for doing nothing to save him channel4.com/news/police-unl… via @Channel4News

Police unlawfully killed vulnerable man inquest rules

A vulnerable patient who died after being restrained by police officers has been declared the victim of unlawful killing.

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Deadliest Channel migrant tragedy was 'preventable'. channel4.com/news/deadliest-… via @Channel4News

Deadliest Channel migrant tragedy was ‘preventable’

A public inquiry into the deadliest Channel crossing on record has ended with the families saying discrimination was key to the failure to rescue their loved ones.

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Tamil migrant families hellish time on Diego Garcia in probably longest ever unlawful detention under British sovereignty of more than 1000 days in rat infested camp channel4.com/news/tamil-migr… via @Channel4News

Tamil migrants’ hellish time held on Diego Garcia

Along with the top secret base on Diego Garcia - the UK government has also been dealing with a group of Tamil migrants who spent more than 3 years encamped on the island - where a judge ruled they...

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Fiona Holm. Murdered in June 2023. Still missing. Daughter and family still searching. mynewsdesk.com/uk/metpoliceu…
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Merry Griftmas @ByDonkeys calling out the Grifter In Chief...
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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
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No Holds Barr-ed: Coles on the rack at the #spycops inquiry
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Apologies - miscalculation of days in detention on Diego Garcia for the asylum seeking Tamils. It's actually even longer and amounts to 1155 days imprisoned in a camp little bigger than a football pitch for these families which include 16 children. Astonishing
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A High Court judge has ruled that 64 Tamil asylum seekers were 'unlawfully detained' for up to 1099 days in a camp on the secret UK/US military base of Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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Simon Robinson, a lawyer for Duncan Lewis said "Questions need to be answered about how, in the 21st century, this was able to happen. Today is a victory..for the rule of law.'
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55 of those Tamil men,women and children have recently been brought to the UK to be resettled here after attempts to send them to other countries failed.
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