Agencies condemned for treatment of vulnerable boy
January 29, 2011 in Breaking News, Custody Deaths & Abuse by Peter Barry
originally by: INQUEST
27th January 2011
The jury at the second inquest into the death of 14 year old Adam Rickwood in Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in County Durham on 8 August 2004 today returned a damning narrative verdict criticising failings by Serco, the private company running Hassockfield, the Youth Justice Board, Prison Service restraint trainers and the Lancashire Youth Offending Team.
Following today’s verdict, Adam Rickwood’s mother Carol Pounder said:
Nothing can bring Adam back. I have waited over six years for truth and justice. All I have ever wanted is to find out the truth about what happened to my son and for those responsible for unlawful assaults to be held to account.
Acting for Carol Pounder, Mark Scott of Bhatt Murphy solicitors, said:
It has taken a six year legal battle, including a flawed first inquest and three judicial reviews (one of which went to the Court of Appeal), to finally expose the numerous failings and illegal treatment that Adam, and many other vulnerable children in privatised child prisons, have suffered.
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