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Sudden death of inmate in Holloway Prison Two hundred people gathered in solidarity outside Holloway Prison on Monday night following the sudden death of inmate Sarah Reed
picture from The Guardian by Ammaarah Khan . Civil rights campaigner Lee Jasper, 58, organised the candlelit vigil in less than 24 hours, inviting family and friends to share their memories of Reed. The vigil took place the same day as her funeral. Family members described Reed as “a warrior, a lover of hip-hop music and the life of the party”. In an interview with the Islington Ga-
zette, Jasper said: “Last night we had the mother of someone on the same wing as Sarah and she gave her condolences and said all the women on the wing had tried to save her. All the women were deeply distressed.” The 32-yearold, who had mental health issues since her baby died in 2003, was found unresponsive last month in her cell, where she had been on remand since October. Previously, in 2012, camera footage showed her being as-
saulted by a police officer following her arrest for suspicion of shoplifting at Uniqlo on Regents Street. PC James Kiddie pinned Reed to the ground, grabbed her by her hair, beat her head with his fist and then handcuffed her hands behind her back. Kiddie was sacked from the force two years later and sentenced to community service. Reed had been moved to Holloway Prison from Maudsley Hospital, where
she had caused bodily harm with intent to another patient in response to sexual assault. Following the attack, she was not released back to the south London mental health hospital. Reed’s family insist that she acted in self-defence. jIn a letter to her family, Reed had described the elderly white man who allegedly attacked her as a “dirty pervert, who was also a patient at the hospital”. Deborah Coles, director
of Inquest, the deaths in custody charity working with Reed’s family, told the Guardian: “The courts, police and mental health services must be held to account for why Sarah as a victim of abuse, bereavement and police brutality ever ended up in prison in the first place.” Holloway Prison service and Maudsley Hospital have declined to comment during the on-going investigation into the death.
Possible cancer “cure” in specialised trials by Abigail Opiah
A breakthrough in the medical world finds a hopeful new cancer therapy that uses the body’s own immune cells to attack metastatic tumors that have spread. White blood
cells that are made in the lab could in future potentially save dying patients suffering from cancer. European Pharmaceutical review tweeted that is extraordinary cancer therapy could present a “paradigm
shift” in treatment of the disease that has been killing millions over the years. Genetically modified blood is turned into a living drug, as a baby from North London, Layla Richards, be-
came on of the first people in the world to be given the new treatment last year. This year, T-cell immunotherapy is back and studies reveal the treatment could last 14 years in the body.
A study showed that 94 percent of participants suffering from acute Lymphoblastic leukemia said their symptoms vanished completely after they were treated with the modified blood cells.