If you are reading this on a desktop computer, right click this YouTube clip and have it running in the background on another tab whilst you read this blog. Imagine this scenario and the fiction in which you think it may appear —- you are the victim of a very serious crime.  So serious that […]

In March of this year, Phillip SIMELANE was charged with the murder of Christina EDKINS after a fatal stabbing occured on a bus on the Hagley Road in Birmingham. Today, he has appeared before Birmingham Crown Court and pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. I’m sure we all remember the shock […]

When I start an EARLY shift at 7am, the cell block is usually quite full.  There will be prisoners there who have been arrested but not yet charged, who await investigation and those who have been arrested, charged and denied bail who are waiting for the truck to take them off to see the Magistrates.  […]