Posts Tagged ‘remembrance’
originally published: 18th June 2009
Hugh R. Manes, a veteran civil rights lawyer who for 40 years fought for victims of police misconduct, died Saturday at his Los Angeles home after a long battle with emphysema, according to his law partner, Carol Watson. He was 84.
Manes began representing victims of police misconduct in the 1960s, nearly [...]
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Tags: remembrance, campaigners
originally published: May 2008
Pauline Campbell was found dead on 15th May 2008, lying on the grave of her daughter Sarah. Sarah died in January 2003 in HMP Styal.
INQUEST’s staff were very sad to receive news of the death of Pauline Campbell. We advised and supported Pauline after her 18 year old daughter Sarah died in [...]
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Kelso Cochrane memorial event
originally published: date unknown
Fifty years after the murder of Kelso Cochrane, a graveside tribute followed by a march and showing of IRR film ‘From you were black, you were out’.
On 17th May 1959, Kelso Cochrane, a 32-year-old carpenter from Antigua, was killed by a group of white youths in Notting Hill Gate. No one [...]
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Tags: injustice, remembrance