Police

We talk to Mark Day, the Deputy Director at the Prison Reform Trust, and its representative on the Ministry of Justice’s IPP External Stakeholder Challenge Group.

The UN rapporteur for torture has told this programme that Indeterminate prison terms, or IPP Sentences, which were handed down by UK judges up until 11 years ago are an “egregious miscarriage of justice”. 

The video sharing platform Youtube has suspended Russell Brand’s ability to make money from adverts on his channels – saying he had violated their “creator responsibility policy” after serious allegations made against him. 

The Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, who chairs the Women and Equalities committee, joins me now.

Dorothy Byrne spent more than 15 years as head of news and current affairs at Channel 4 – she’s currently president of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. We spoke to her about what she’s made of what’s unfolded since the investigation aired.

The promotors of Russell Brand’s tour of UK theatres have postponed the remaining three shows scheduled for this month – after the Met Police said they had received a report of an alleged sexual assault in central London in 2003. 

The escape from Wandsworth prison sparked a four-day manhunt involving more than 150 police officers.

Dr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service employers and Anita Smith, a teacher at a secondary school in North Leeds.

Within minutes of the government confirming that they’d accepted the recommendations of the pay review bodies, the teaching unions in England had called off their strikes. 

Doreen Lawrence has expressed fury after the Metropolitan Police announced a significant new suspect in her son Stephen’s murder.

When Nicola Bulley went missing in January, the case attracted conspiracy theorists and armchair detectives.

The partner of ex-football star Dalian Atkinson, who died after being Tasered and kicked by a police officer, has said she is heartbroken by the “brutal” way he was treated.

Serious questions raised about why Met Police chose not to investigate alleged offences. Police said today they will ‘review the information’ reported by this programme.

The number of crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales has topped five million for the first time in a decade – that’s 13 per cent higher than the year before. Police are now dealing with more violent incidents, and almost a fifth more sexual offence crimes.

A report has detailed how police missed numerous chances to prevent the death of a mentally ill man. 25-year-old James Herbert never regained consciousness after being restrained, transported 27 miles then left naked face down in a police cell. Today the Independent Police Complaints Commission recommended special techniques when dealing with those with mental health problems.