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Barristers Commission response to McNee police proposals (1979)
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- Interview
Edward Rees, one of a group of barristers which has made a submission to the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure in response to proposals by London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir David McNee which...
Seven guilty verdicts in Hull prison officers trial (1979)
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- Interview
Paul Davies interviews an unidentified male Hull prison officer, who expresses disappointment at the trial verdict on seven of his colleagues who have been found guilty of conspiring to conduct revenge...
Seven guilty verdicts in Hull prison officers trial (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Paul Davies interviews an unidentified male speaker (a former prisoner?), who welcomes the trial verdict on seven prison officers who have been found guilty of conspiring to conduct revenge attacks on...
Four not guilty verdicts in Hull prison officers trial (1979)
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- News report
Report on the not guilty trial verdicts on four of the twelve prison officers accused of conducting revenge attacks on prisoners following the 1976 Hull Prison riots, and retirement of the jury to reach a...
NCCL on prison grievance procedure (1979)
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- Interview
Following the criminal convictions of a number of Hull prison officers, Peter Thornton of the National Council for Civil Liberties comments on the present unsatisfactory internal grievance procedure whereby...
Suspended sentences in Hull prison officers trial (1979)
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- Interview
Paul Davies interviews an unidentified male Hull prison officer, who welcomes the suspended sentences for seven of his colleagues found guilty of conspiring to conduct revenge attacks on prisoners after the...
Jake Prescott on suspended sentences in Hull prison officers trial (1979)
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- Interview
Former Hull prisoner Jake Prescott argues there will be general dissatisfaction in prisons over the suspended sentences for the seven prison officers found guilty of conspiring to conduct revenge attacks on...
Dog rips car interior to shreds (1979)
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- Interview
Georgie Page on the serious damage done to her car by her nine-stone Pyrenean Mountain dog Gilbert while left alone in the vehicle, and her subsequent purchase of an Old English Sheepdog to keep him company....
Street performer’s protest against London obstruction laws (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with street performer Jismi, who is camping in an 8-foot long cardboard tube outside New Scotland Yard in protest against London’s obstruction laws, and in the hope that London Transport...
Justice Stevenson on retirement (1979)
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- News report
Ken Dennis reports on the career of Justice Melford Stevenson, who is to retire after 53 years as a QC and High Court judge, and who served in many high-profile trials, defended Ruth Ellis and sentenced the...