Entirely Preventable

The killings of Mr Michael and Mrs Marjorie Cawdery were “entirely preventable”, according to His Majesty’s Coroner for Northern Ireland. In a narrative verdict which took over four hours to fully outline, Maria Dougan summarised the detailed evidence heard earlier this year which indicated a lack of legal understanding amongst both police officers and mental […]

Nottingham

In June of this year, my house was in the grip of A-level season, my son studying hard to secure his future and his first choice university place. Just at the point where he had one exam left to go, dreadful news broke about a rapid succession of devastating overnight incidents in Nottingham, where three […]

Fatal Police Shooting

Very sad news from east London this week, where the Metropolitan Police have used firearms at an incident which seems to have been a mental health crisis in progress and it has ended with the death of a vulnerable man who had called the police to say he wanted to take his own life and […]