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Justice for John Boyle

01 January 2004

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Following admissions by the Home Office that prison officers at Wormwood Scrubs threatened prisoners with being hung, and claimed to have in the past got away with hanging prisoners and making their deaths look like suicide, the family of John Boyle has called on the Home Secretary to hold a public inquiry into John's death. John Boyle died on 7 December 1994, having been found hanging in a cell in the Segregation Unit at Wormwood Scrubs on 4 December 1994. Bruises found on his body were never satisfactorily explained. Police called to the prison collected no evidence and left it to the prison to investigate itself. Potential witnesses were moved from the Segregation Unit and never traced. Following an anonymous call to their solicitors alleging that prison officers were responsible for John's death, and the many allegations of assaults in the Segregation Unit since 1994, John's family now demand a public inquiry. Anyone with information which may assist the family, or who was in the Segregation Unit at Wormwood Scrubs during 1994, contact: Daniel Machover, Hickman and Rose solicitors, 144 Liverpool Road. London N1 1LA. Tel. 0207 700 2211

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