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• Sir William Gage obituary

  15-10-2023 18:41
  
  Appeal court judge who chaired the public inquiry into the 2003 death of the Iraqi prisoner Baha Mousa in British army custodyWhen details emerged of how the Iraqi hotel receptionist Baha Mousa had been violently restrained and beaten to death in British military custody in 2003, it was the appeal court judge Sir William Gage who was the natural choice to chair the public inquiry.Trusted with high profile trials, Gage, who has died aged 85, was renowned for his legal thoroughness and composed de
  
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• Britain’s filthy, violent prisons shame us all. Here’s why we should care | Martha Gill

  15-10-2023 07:32
  
  Despite evidence that brutalised jail inmates reoffend, there seems little drive to make the system more humaneImagine a judge making these sentencing remarks to a man found guilty of rape: “This is one of the most vicious crimes I have come across. I am therefore adding an extra sanction to your sentence. You will be sent to a prison ward where you yourself are very likely to be raped.”Or imagine a judge saying this, to a female murderer, found guilty of killing babies and now pregn
  
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