Elmley Prison officers’ ‘disproportionate’ restraint contributed to inmate’s death jury finds

Prison officers carried out “inappropriate and disproportionate” restraint on a prisoner moments before his death, an inquest jury has found. Azroy Dawes-Clarke, 28, from Romford, east London, was an inmate at HMP Elmley, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, when he died after suffering multiple cardiac arrests on November 10 2021. He had tied a […]