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Leading lawyer calls for the prison service’s immunity from prosecution over custody deaths to be removed
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dailyrecord.co.ukA leading human rights lawyer has challenged Humza Yousaf to remove the prison service’s “licence to kill” by ending its immunity from prosecution over custody deaths.
Aamer Anwar has spoken out five years after Katie Allan, 21, and William Lindsay, 16, took their own lives at a jail for young people amid claims of serious care failings.
Katie died at Polmont Young Offenders Institution, near Falkirk, in June 2018 while serving a sentence for a driving offence.
William’s death was in October of the same year while he was on remand at the same prison. The Crown Office finally confirmed in May a joint fatal accident inquiry (FAI) will be held.
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