Eimear Flanagan BBC News NI BBC Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs took part in a BBC Radio Ulster documentary called Exonerated in 2017 A US woman who spent years on death row for murders she didn’t commit was among two people found dead after a house fire in the Republic of Ireland. Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs died alongside...
Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York Lily Jamali BBC News, Alcatraz Island Daniel A. Edwards Hopkins has moved back to his home state of Florida since he was released in 1963 When Charlie Hopkins thinks back to the three years he spent in one of America’s most famous prisons, he remembers the “deathly quiet” the...
An inmate armed with a plastic prison knife who took a Dartmoor prison officer hostage has been jailed. Scott Patterson handcuffed the warder and held him for three hours during the attack at HMP Dartmoor in July 2023. Patterson, 37, admitted false imprisonment, assaulting an emergency worker and possessing an offensive weapon in prison. Judge...
Harriet Heywood BBC News, Cambridgeshire Supplied John Mansfield was jailed for a minimum of 30 years after admitting to murder in 2007 A serving prisoner has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a convicted killer was found dead at a high-security prison. The body of John Mansfield was found at HMP Whitemoor, near March...
North Wales Police Anthony Saunderson was part of an organised crime group which produced an amount of drugs described by police as “eye-watering” The inmate who a prison governor began a relationship with was a notorious criminal who ran his drugs empire on the encrypted messaging service Encrochat. It was Anthony Saunderson’s use of Encrochat...
BBC A prison governor who began a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss locked up in the jail she ran has been found guilty of two counts of misconduct in a public office. Kerri Pegg, 42, was seen as a “rising star” of the Prison Service, climbing the career ladder from graduate to governor of...
A prison governor accused of being in a relationship with a gang boss inmate said she had always been a “hands-on” person, but denied any wrongdoing. Kerri Pegg, 42, was allegedly gifted a £12,000 Mercedes car by Anthony Saunderson, who used the name Jesse Pinkman, a meth dealer in the TV show Breaking Bad, during...