Woodcock report into Whitemoor breakout - Michael Howard’s Commons statement
- Title
- Woodcock report into Whitemoor breakout - Michael Howard’s Commons statement
- Genre
- Speech; Parliamentary debate
- TX Date
- 19 Dec 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:01:21
- Description
- Excerpt from a House of Commons statement by Home Secretary, Michael Howard, responding to a report by Sir John Woodcock into the escape in 09/94 by IRA prisoners from the special secure unit at Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire. Howard says he accepts the findings and will announce a sweeping review of the prison service.
- Contributors
- Michael Howard
- Keywords
- Reports; Terrorism; Prisons; IRA; Security; Prisoners; Escapes; Cabinet ministers; Whitemoor Prison; Woodcock Report
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