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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Deborah coles - The Untold Story

New rules will allow police misusing force in England and Wales to ‘walk away scot-free’

Critics say boosting protections for officers at misconduct cases, introduced after fatal shooting of Chris Kaba, will undermine rule of law

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025

Why Shabana Mahmood’s outlook on prisons is wrong

Letter: The justice secretary has not understood many of the issues surrounding the prisons crisis, say Deborah Coles, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2025

Rise in deaths in state detention an ‘escalating crisis behind closed doors’

The Ministry of Justice said the increase was driven by a 16% rise in deaths in prison custody, which are systematically investigated by coroners.

Evening Standard · May 15, 2025

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Mental health deaths inquiry hears about ‘denial and defensiveness’

The falsification of safety records was ‘well known within the Essex context’, the Lampard Inquiry was told.

Evening Standard · May 12, 2025

Charity boss condemns planned anonymity for firearms officers accused of murder

Director of Inquest Deborah Coles said the change sets a dangerous precedent.

Evening Standard · Apr 23, 2025

Streeting says ‘Hillsborough Law’ taking longer than hoped as anniversary nears

Campaigners want a legal duty of candour on public authorities and officials to tell the truth and proactively co-operate with official probes.

Evening Standard · Apr 8, 2025

Hillsborough Law to prevent cover-ups ‘must be all or nothing’ – campaigners

The Prime Minister has previously pledged to introduce the law before this year’s anniversary of the tragedy.

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2025

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Family of man who died in custody say four-year wait for CPS decision is ‘form of torture’

Sister of William Cameron, who died in a police station in Berkshire in 2020, says delay has left family unable to grieve

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2025

Deaths at young offender institution in Scotland ‘could have been avoided’

Call for prisons to lose immunity from prosecution after report into suicides of Katie Allan, 20, and William Lindsay, 16, at Polmont

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2025

Don’t leave Covid and Grenfell inquiries to ‘gather dust’, families tell Starmer

Coalition of groups calls on government to set up body to monitor whether recommendations are acted upon

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2024

The radical changes that are needed to fix the failings of our prison system

Letters: Deborah Coles, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs call for a change in sentencing policy, a halt to prison-building, a cut in the jail population and investment in communities and alternatives to custody

The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2024

‘Outdated and offensive’: police in England and Wales barred from blaming restraint deaths on ‘excited delirium’

The pseudoscientific term, made notorious by George Floyd’s murder in the US, will no longer be used by the police watchdog

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2024

18-year-old who killed herself in prison should not have been there, say campaigners

Mother of Annelise Sanderson says daughter, who had mental health issues, was ‘just another number’ to authorities

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2024

Urgent calls for swift action in self-harm related prison deaths

Inquests into self-inflicted deaths in prison have been delayed, Labour MP Andy Slaughter says

The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2023

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The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2023

Lessons must be learned from self-harm related prison deaths, ministers warned

Inquests into self-inflicted deaths in prison have been delayed, meaning important lessons have not been learned, Labour MP Andy Slaughter said.

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2023

Focus on prison places is a political ploy

Letter: Britain’s prison system neither rehabilitates nor delivers justice, write Deborah Coles, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2023

Cost of Grenfell Tower disaster soars to nearly £1.2bn

Exclusive: Costs now 4,000 times amount saved by replacing fire-retardant materials with combustible cladding

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022

Operation Safeguard will put prisoners in danger

Letters: Tory plans to use police cells to tackle prison overcrowding will make a crisis even worse, according to Deborah Coles, Joe Sim, Steve Tombs and Martha Spurrier

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Chronicle Live · Nov 2, 2022

North East teens tragically took their own lives after 'appalling' NHS mental health care

Christie Harnett, Nadia Sharif, and Emily Moore, all died within an eight-month period after long mental health battles

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2022

In Britain, a jail sentence is often a death sentence. What’s going on in our prisons?

Last year, 371 people died behind closed doors. We want justice for them – and an end to a cruel system, say Inquest’s Deborah Coles and Jessica Pandian

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2022

Ministers urged to launch inquiry into inpatient mental health services after ‘systemic abuse’ allegations

Exclusive: The development comes after The Independent revealed allegations by 22 patients of ‘systemic abuse’ within children’s mental health hospitals

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Watchdog facing legal action threat after Chelsea Bridge death

Relatives of Oladeji Omishore want a judicial review of the decision not to hold a criminal or misconduct investigation in the wake of his death.

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2022

Chris Kaba’s family back call for UN to examine police shooting

The charity Inquest has submitted details of death of unarmed black man in London to the human rights commissioner

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2022

Friday briefing: What we do – and don’t – know about why Chris Kaba was shot dead by police

In today’s newsletter: The 24-year-old black man was shot by police in south London – but questions remain about how and why the incident became lethal

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2022

Justice has not been done for the Grenfell 72. We must fight on until it is

Letter: Five years after the fire, there has been virtually no positive change, write Deborah Coles and Aniesha Obuobie

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