INQUEST
⚖️INQUEST is an independent charity combining specialist support for bereaved people following a state related death, with campaigning for justice and change.
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- Bereaved families are heading to London for urgent talks with Keir Starmer as Hillsborough Law is delayed. "The Prime Minister made me a promise to my face that he would not let this bill be watered down. It has to apply to all public servants & public officials." - Charlotte Hennessy
- We've joined over 40 other civil society groups including @pscupdates.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social & @tuc.org.uk to oppose dangerous government plans to increase police powers to ban protests. We urge the government to immediately drop this draconian crackdown on our right to protest.
- Families bereaved by the Manchester Arena bombing have written to the PM calling for MI5 to be fully included in the Hillsborough Law. @debcoles13.bsky.social said: “The duty of candour must apply in full to security services & every public service so that no institution can hide behind secrecy.”
- @thehowardleague.bsky.social is challenging the government's decision to authorise the use of PAVA spray in prisons holding boys due to: - the physical & psychological damage PAVA spray will cause; - the likely discriminatory use against racialised children; - the increased harm it could cause.
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- 🚨 NEW REPORT: Built to Harm: how women's prisons take lives From 2018–24, 59 people died in women’s prisons in England & Wales, nearly 40% self-inflicted. The report shows many deaths could have been prevented if successive governments had acted on long-standing calls to end women’s imprisonment.
- Reposted by INQUESTIf you're considering where to make a Christmas Donation, can strongly recommend the amazing charity INQUEST. They gave me vital support to navigate the system after my mum died and do so much for families like mine. The funding landscape is v tough atm, anything you can spare would be a big help -
- 🌟 Our Christmas Fundraiser is LIVE 🌟 From now until 9 Dec, every donation made to INQUEST via @biggive.bsky.social will be matched at no extra cost to you. We need to raise £30,000 so we can continue supporting families bereaved by state failures & neglect. Donate & share bit.ly/inquestbg25
- 🌟 Our Christmas Fundraiser is LIVE 🌟 From now until 9 Dec, every donation made to INQUEST via @biggive.bsky.social will be matched at no extra cost to you. We need to raise £30,000 so we can continue supporting families bereaved by state failures & neglect. Donate & share bit.ly/inquestbg25
- From conversations & films to herbal remedies, December with INQUEST & BÉZNĂ Theatre is about witnessing grief, honouring lives & taking collective care. Join us for a series of events during BÉZNĂ Theatre's art installation, Preventable, in Hammersmith. www.inquest.org.uk/bzn-theatre-...
- Our Director @debcoles13.bsky.social spoke about the need for the Public Office (Accountability) Bill to provide transparency and accountability, and to put an end to the battle that bereaved families face when fighting for the truth.
- Join us for a discussion of our new report, Built to harm: how women's prisons take lives. 📅 Mon 1 Dec, 1-2pm 📍 Online We'll be looking at the long-standing, systemic failures in our prison system that continue to put women at risk & what's really needed to stop deaths. Sign up bit.ly/builttoharm
- Sky News exposes the systemic failings that led to 18 yr old Nonita Grabovskyte’s death whilst in the care of the London Borough of Barnet. INQUEST, @article39.bsky.social & @gcnchambers.bsky.social call for urgent action to protect children leaving care. Watch now
- Today the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has published an independent report that finds anti-Black racism is part of the Service’s ‘institutional design’. This is not a new finding. The 1999 Macpherson Report was the first report of its kind to identify institutional racism in the MPS.
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- MP's will debate Hillsborough Law for the first time on Monday. The Bill is a critical opportunity to right past wrongs and end cover-up culture. It must be implemented in full. We've teamed up with JUSTICE and Hillsborough Law Now to brief MP's ahead of the debate. Read the briefing:
- The latest Safety in Custody statistics show that in the 12 months to September 2025, there were 411 deaths in prison custody, an increase of 30% in the previous 12 months. Of these, 96 deaths were self-inflicted, an increase from the 88 self-inflicted deaths in the previous 12 months.
- These figures demonstrate the inherently destructive nature of prisons, with deaths on the sharp end. To end the vicious cycle of harm, the government must invest in community alternatives such as welfare, housing, and specialist drug and alcohol services to ensure people's needs are met.
- Reposted by INQUESTPlease repost @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An @inquest-org.bsky.social Documentary and Q&A, 80-98 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool, 26 Nov., 5-8pm (event starts at 5.30). Free to enter but registration required @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/ccse-film-...
- Last week the Home Office announced new rules that will make it even harder to hold police officers accountable following use of force & misconduct. Instead of listening to those bereaved by police violence, the Home Office is parroting the police lobby. This will lead to more impunity & injustice
- A coalition of journalists and media lawyers have warned Shabana Mahmood that government plans to give anonymity to firearms officers facing criminal charges will damage public confidence in policing and fuel online misinformation. We echo their call to the home secretary to think again.
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- Reposted by INQUESTVital work of museum of homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social bringing to light the shocking reality of deaths of people experiencing homelessness. museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...
- 🗞️ October 2025 Newsletter is out! All of this month's latest updates including: 🟣 Landmark introduction of Hillsborough Law to Parliament 🟣Urgent amendments to Mental Health Bill to safeguard children 🟣Fatal consequences of racist immigration policies Read more 🔽
- Jermaine Baker, 28, was fatally shot by an officer known only as W80, a Metropolitan police officer, in Wood Green on 11 December 2015. He was unarmed. Now a police misconduct hearing has heard that the firearms officer used excessive force.
- "This inquest laid bare the fatal consequences of placing people like Leonard Farruku on barges in de facto imprisonment. These harmful policies isolate people from support & deny them dignity. Amid racist immigration rhetoric, we must remember the real human cost." @debcoles13.bsky.social
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- Report again finds HMP Pentonville in "appalling" conditions: people living in vermin infested rooms & locked up 22 hrs a day. 3 people have taken their own lives this year. To prevent further deaths, we must redirect resources away from prisons & into community alternatives that centre care.
- We joined @ungripp.bsky.social at Labour Party Conference for a powerful panel on why we must resentence people still trapped under abolished IPP sentences. As Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said: “Indefinite detention quickly slides into a kind of torture.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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- Once more, our amazing Trustee @beckymontacute.bsky.social is running another half marathon to raise money for our work with bereaved families! We're incredibly grateful for all her support & dedication. Please share & donate if you can! www.justgiving.com/page/rebecca...
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- Big news: Today government introduced the Hillsborough Law to Parliament. Now we’ve added a new session to our INQUEST Northern Conference this Thursday 18 September, with key lawyers involved in this landmark legislation. 🚨 Don’t miss this vital conversation. 🎟️ Get your tickets
- Reposted by INQUESTStatement from the Hillsborough Law Now campaugn regarding the news that the Hillsborough Law will be introduced to Parliament on Tuesday 16 September.
- Today, after decades of campaigning by the families of the 97 people unlawfully killed at the Hillsborough Football Disaster, the government will introduce the Hillsborough Law to Parliament. The families have campaigned tirelessly to ensure future families don’t face the same injustice.
- If properly implemented, the Bill will mean 🔴all bereaved families will have access to the same legal support at inquests as the state agencies involved 🔴and those agencies may finally be compelled to tell the truth. Today is a testament to the strength of families who refused to give up.
- Only a few spaces left for our annual INQUEST Northern Conference & Quiz to raise money for our vital work. Join us for insightful discussions on case law, the new bench book & trauma-informed practice. 📅 Thursday 18 September 🕐 12:30-17:00 (conference), 17:00-19:00 (quiz) 📍Manchester city centre
- @florenceeshalomi.bsky.social has reiterated the call for the Govt. to introduce an independent National Oversight Mechanism. “It is crucial that Government is properly held to account for implementing the recommendations of the Grenfell inquiry."
- Strong MP turnout for @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social Westminster Hall debate on Hillsborough Law. The Govt must enact a full Hillsborough Law - with a legal duty of candour and equality of arms. It’s not a technicality - it’s a moral imperative. Watch the full debate www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
- “The family see police legal action as a pathetic attempt to derail the Sheku Bayoh inquiry. For over a decade Sheku has been smeared, stereotyped & criminalised in order to negate his right to life, but history will be on the side of Sheku." - Aamer Anwar, lawyer to Sheku's family
- 📢 INQUEST's @debcoles13.bsky.social, Joe Sim & @stevetombs.bsky.social respond to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plans for prisons. If the answer is more prisons and harsher punishments, then she, like her predecessors, is asking the wrong questions. Read our letter
- A week ago, the government authorised a trial for specialist officers to use Tasers in men’s prisons. Concerningly, the trial has no end date, as it will continue to run until 'enough data has been collected to determine if they should be more widely used.’ www.gov.uk/government/n...
- ✨ INQUEST NEWS Read our summer newsletter for the latest updates on 🟣why families won't give up until we have a full Hillsborough Law 🟣tributes to people killed by the police across decades 🟣the campaign to remove crown immunity from prisons 🟣updates on our Unjust Deaths heritage project
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- Latest statistics show a 30% increase of deaths in prison & the highest rate of self-harm since records began. Despite this, no meaningful action is being taken to address the root cause of why deaths & self-harm are increasing in prison: an over-reliance on punishment to deal with social issues.
- Legacy is at the heart of INQUEST’s recent work on heritage, archiving & memorialisation. Our working group explores how we can memorialise those killed by the state. In a new blog, Alfie Neill reflects on the group & how you can shape future projects.
- Today Chris Kaba should be turning 27. Instead, he was killed by Met police in 2022. We’re bringing back a special episode of Unlawful Killing with his father, Prosper Kaba, to honour Chris and & in solidarity with his family's ongoing fight for justice. Listen & share pod.link/1717049291/e...
- Today, MP Blair McDougall introduced a Bill in Parliament to remove crown immunity from prisons. Following the deaths of Katie Allan and William Lindsay in HMYOI Polmont in Scotland, he calls for accountability. INQUEST backs the move to end legal impunity for prison failures.
- @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social have issued an urgent notification to the gvmt about HMP Pentonville. They found: ⚫prisoners illegally imprisoned beyond their release date ⚫prisoners held in squalid cells for more than 22 hours a day ⚫inadequate support for prisoners at imminent risk of self-harm
- Margaret Aspinall's son James was one of the 97 people unlawfully killed in the Hillsborough Football Disaster. She tells BBC Breakfast why a Hillsborough Law is needed to protect ordinary people & that she will not accept a watered down version. Watch the full interview youtu.be/egT54XwEMkA?...
- It’s 20 years since Jean Charles De Menezes was killed by police at Stockwell station. Former INQUEST worker Yasmin Khan reflects on standing at his vigil all those years ago and the ripples of resistance that followed his death.
- Azroy Dawes-Clarke, a 28 year old Black man, was a semi-professional football player & loving father of four. Now an inquest jury has found that inappropriate & disproportionate restraint contributed to his death at HMP Elmley. They also found a 'deeply concerning lack of care & compassion.'
