20 March 2026
By Mark Leech, Editor: The Prisons Handbook It is with profound sadness that I share the news of the death of my dear friend Bobby Cummines OBE, who has died aged 74 after being hit by a car in Warley, Brentwood. I first met Bobby in B Wing at Parkhurst Prison in the mid-1980s, and […]
5 December 2024
Louise Haigh committed a crime more than 10 years ago. Before she was an MP, the woman who was Sir Keir Starmer’s transport secretary until a few days ago pleaded guilty to fraud; magistrates meted out the lowest possible sanction they could. She is said to have told the prime minister about the conviction and […]
