Mouayed Bashir

An inquest in to the death of Mr Mouayed Bashir will open in Newport, Gwent on Monday 15th January 2024. Mr Bashir died in February 2021 after his family rang 999 due to a mental health crisis incident at their home address during which he barricaded himself in a room. Force was used to restrain […]

New Code – Chapter Sixteen

Happy 2024 to you all! It’s now nine years since the Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 was published in England (2015) and eight years for the Code in Wales (2016). Given the laws for policing / mental health were changed in 2017, that means we’ve had Codes of Practice MHA for […]

When Does 24hrs Begin?

I’ve had this question before and I thought I’d written a post on it, but I can’t find it for love or money so I’ll assume I dreamt that and haven’t covered it! … oh, I hope you had a lovely Christmas, by the way. I got a new cycling computer that does fancy things […]