Murdered: but screws go free
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Barry Prosser is not the first prisoner to be murdered by prison officers in Britain and he will not be the last.
But he is one of the few to have an inquest jury return a verdict of unlawful killing.
Prosser was murdered by screws while in the hospital wing of Winson Green Prison, Birmingham Medical evidence The inquest turned uo two things. Firstly the A new organisation calling itself the Anti-Soviet Sociery has emer. ged on the far night.
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Ice Anti-Soviet unequivocal medical evidence from two pathologists that 32 year old Prosser had been attacked with considerable violence, burstThis stomach, and coroner who was reluctant to accept an open verdict.
Beaten up
One witness, Patrick Calvin, said he heard Prosser being beaten up and one warder say 'He was a bugger to put down".
Later he was told he could get an early release if he kept his mouth shut. Purports io be a broad dare or anticommunists Siix:
ite invited to their puolic meeting, a representative from the Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS in Russian).
The NTS claim to be a Christian Democratic party represented throughout the capitalist world and in Russia itself.
Three screws are now on paid leave' from the prison, including Melvyn Jackson, the senior officer who was acquitted of. murder by Birmingham's stipendary magistrate, and who now cannot stand trial.
An urgent inquiry' is being carried out to find some way of smoothing the troubled waters. This is not expected to include jail sentences for the wardens.
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It is now riddled with anti-semites and openly Nazi organisations.
Much of the funding of this group comes from Saudi Arabian businessmen.
FOR SDP THE 43-strong Social Democratic Party always had problems. But now it is