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Sep 26, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Nikki Mitchell
Each prison wing is four storeys high and radiates outwards from a central tower [BBC]Too many men are being released from a prison "homeless" and without enough help, according to volunteer monitors. The latest Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) report into HMP Winchester in Hampshire said additional support is "urgently needed", in part because of a government early release schemeThe IMB is also worried about rising levels of violence in what are "cramped" and "dilapidated" buildings.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nikki Mitchell
Nikki Mitchell - Home Affairs Correspondent, BBC SouthSeptember 13, 2024 at 12:55 AM·2 min readThere is to be increased public oversight into the "use of force" by police across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, in the hope of improving trust and confidence. Thames Valley Police is recruiting volunteers to review random body-worn videos where officers have used physical restraint tactics, tasers or other means they thought were needed to protect themselves or the public.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nikki Mitchell
Nikki Mitchell - Home Affairs Correspondent, BBC SouthSeptember 6, 2024 at 11:32 AM·2 min readA pre-inquest review into the beating to death of a hotel receptionist has heard her employer had no information about her attacker's "violent past" or the threat he posed to women. Marta Elena Vento, 27, was punched and kicked repeatedly by a guest for 42 minutes, while working alone in the lobby of the Travelodge in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, on 9 December 2020.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nikki Mitchell
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nikki Mitchell
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nathan Briant |Nikki Mitchell
Nathan Briant & Nikki Mitchell - BBC NewsJuly 26, 2024 at 7:41 AM·3 min readA paedophile who raped a girl and threw her brother off a 100ft cliff to "silence him" has been jailed for life. Anthony Stocks tried to kill the primary school-aged boy at Ovingdean, near Brighton, in September 2022 after fearing he would be exposed as a child abuser. But the boy survived and Stocks claimed he fell from the cliff after he took him there to see the view because it featured in the film Quadrophenia.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nikki Mitchell
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Nikki Mitchell
Restoring furniture 'saved me' from drugs hellBy Nikki Mitchell, @BBCNikkiM, Home Affairs Correspondent, BBC SouthBBCSteve Wyatt now runs a mid-century furniture shop in PooleA heroin and crack cocaine addict who is approaching a decade of abstinence is now on a mission to give other addicts hope. Steve Wyatt, from Poole, Dorset, spent three years homeless on the streets, three years in prison and four years in rehab in the 22 years he was hooked on drink and drugs.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Nikki Mitchell
Families remember young victims of car crashesBy Nikki Mitchell, BBC South home affairs correspondentBBCThe families carried images of loved ones killed in car crashesThe family of a 19-year-old killed in a car crash have joined other bereaved relatives remembering young people who have died on the roads. Sammy Phillips was a passenger in a BMW being driven by a 22-year-old friend when it hit a tree on the A4130 near Bix in Oxfordshire in 2023, killing both.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nikki Mitchell
Nikki Mitchell - BBC NewsJune 12, 2024 at 4:36 PM·2 min readThe parents of a young man killed in a catastrophic car crash in Loughborough in 1986 are trying to trace relatives of three other teenagers who died with him and another who was seriously injured. Robbin and Patsy Suffield, who now live in Warwickshire, have campaigned for better protection for young drivers ever since their 18-year-old son Neil died.
