• The tragedy of Rianna and baby Aisha: why a teenager gave birth all alone in a prison cell

    The tragedy of Rianna and baby Aisha: why a teenager gave birth all alone in a prison cell
    It was more than 12 hours after Rianna Cleary went into labour before anyone came to help her. She was covered in blood – and her daughter was dead. Why were they failed so appallingly?The last thing Rianna Cleary remembers before she passed out in the early hours of 27 September 2019, alone and in the throes of labour pain, was a scene involving a chicken leg in the film Killer Joe, which was showing on the TV screen in her prison cell.Cleary was 18 at the time – an extremely vulner

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