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Amy-Clare Martin

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Three years ago, assisted dying campaigner Dawn shared her death in Switzerland with the world. In her final moments, she sipped champagne, had a cigarette, and listened to her favourite song. The assisted dying debate should focus on facts, not fears independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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Exclusive: More than 150 apartment block residents face eviction after no fault notices served weeks before Christmas Residents at Vive Living Childers Street in Deptford have been served with a Section 21 eviction notice independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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Congratulations to the Mirror’s Tom Pettifor, Matthew Young and Dan Dove for their brilliant investigation on Jill Dando’s murder. Superb journalism. Well deserved award winners #BritishJournalismAwards m.youtube.com/watch?v=QqbWJD…

Congratulations to the Mirror’s Tom Pettifor, <a href="/MatthewYoung7/">Matthew Young</a> and <a href="/DanJDove/">Dan Dove</a> for their brilliant  investigation on Jill Dando’s murder. Superb journalism. Well deserved award winners #BritishJournalismAwards 

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Despite nine years successfully rebuilding his life, IPP prisoner Haydar Jefferies was hauled back to jail indefinitely over a false allegation, his family says, before he took his own life after the prison failed to get him mental healthcare independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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This Wednesday, 15th January we are holding a drop-in session for MPs in Parliament, where MPs can learn about IPP sentences. Please help raise awareness, ask your MP to come. Send them the flyer below or tag them here. Further change needs to happen.

This Wednesday, 15th January we are holding a drop-in session for MPs in Parliament, where MPs can learn about IPP sentences. Please help raise awareness, ask your MP to come. Send them the flyer below or tag them here.

Further change needs to happen.
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"If I had known, he wouldn’t have been going next door. But we couldn’t see anything on him. All I remember is his bright green hoodie and the Covid mask. All I could see was his eyes." āœļø Amy-Clare Martin in Southport for The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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Like others who witnessed the horrors of the Southport attack, Colin Parry has struggled with flashbacks and nightmares. He confronted an agitated Axel Rudakubana moments before the stabbing, but had no idea he was armed: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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The UN special rapporteur on torture has long been critical of IPP sentences. Speaking to me, she has renewed her calls for leaders to look at resentencing, warning the British government is ā€˜very likely’ breaching some IPP prisoners’ human rights: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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EXCL: Four in ten prisoners who took their own lives in custody were denied adequate healthcare before their deaths, according to damning new figures exposing the scale of neglect inside Britain’s overcrowded prisons. independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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EXCL: ā€˜I stole a mobile phone almost 20 years ago – I’ve spent half my life in prison’ Leroy Douglas has begged for his freedom, describing his IPP jail term as ā€˜cripplingly cruel’ as he languishes in prison independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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Thomas White has previously set himself alight in his cell as his mental health deteriorates on an IPP sentence, which has left him languishing for 13 years for robbing a phone. Sadly, he has suffered another crisis in prison: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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ICYMI: In the fight against knife crime, conversations often focus on tougher punishments alone. I visited a classroom tackling the root causes of youth violence as they fight to save children from a life of gangs and exploitation: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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Four more prisoners serving IPP jail terms have taken their own lives in Britain’s prisons, taking the total number of self-inflicted deaths to 94. A further 37 released IPP prisoners took their own lives in the community in the five years to April 2024: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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ā€˜I’m terrified’: Disabled benefit claimants on the impact of Labour’s Ā£5 billion cuts to welfare independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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Referrals for treatment for ketamine use are soaring. Barney was left with agonising bladder symptoms as he struggled to stop using the powerful tranquilliser. His mother has bravely shared his story: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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Revealed: The staggering cost of detaining prisoners on ā€˜inhumane’ IPP jail terms - and you’re paying for it independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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7 in 10 recalled IPP prisoners have committed no further crime but are held for more than two years on average. Releasing them would free up a prison, but they have been left out of the government’s scheme to reduce the recall population independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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"Thomas will now be a patient and not a prisoner.ā€ Could not be happier for Thomas White and his family, who have fought so hard for him to get the care he needs while he languished on an IPP sentence independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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IPP prisoners would finally get a release date under proposals put forward by the The Howard League and former lord chief justice Lord Thomas. Let's hope the government listens independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…