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Tarek Chowdhury, 64
AN elderly man was “unlawfully killed” while locked inside an immigration detention centre by a fellow inmate, an inquest jury has found.
Business owner Tarek Chowdhury, 64, was fatally “attacked and beaten” at Colnbrook removal centre in west London on December 1, 2016.
The perpetrator, 33-year-old Iraqi detainee Zana Assad Yusif (alias Zana Ahmad), later pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a criminal trial at the Old Bailey on the basis of diminished responsibility.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
PCS members face dangerous working conditions in crumbling buildings while the Common Platform IT system obstructs rather than streamlines operations — and Labour’s promised wave of insourcing has not materialised, writes SHARON McLEAN