You may remember at the end of last year there was an inquest in York into the death in a police station of Toni SPECK whilst detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act? … the jury decided, on the balance of probabilities, that she died from serotonin syndrome whilst detained by North Yorkshire […]

I’m off to Scotland on Monday and half hoping the weather warnings we’re just hearing about might mean I get stuck there! I’m originally from the very north of England so a lot of my childhood memories involve holidays and short trips to Scotland – I’ve always loved the place and especially the people. At […]

I didn’t get ’round to writing a blog on the SESSAY judgment from 2010 before I’d referred to it so many times in other posts, it didn’t seem worthwhile. It’s often regarded as an important ruling, because it relates to a situation in which police officers find themselves all too often: first responders in a […]