GUILTY!
Five Medomsley officers convicted of ‘abuse for pleasure’ of prisoners Five former Medomsley Detention Centre prison officers have been convicted of historic physical abuse at the institution – which the jurors were told, was done purely for the enjoyment of the officers and as a means of degrading and humiliating the young boys in their charge. Boys were beaten as soon as they arrived as a way of instilling fear into them, they heard. One, a PE instructor, was said to have used PE sessions to beat and humiliate the young prisoners, some of whom ended up in hospital. One boy ended up in a body cast for weeks after falling twenty feet when he was knocked off a cargo net with bricks and stones: as he lay crying with agony, the PE instructor said: “Shut up you soft bastard, there’s nothing wrong with you.” The trials, which opened in September 2018, heard from 71 complainants. Jamie Hill More...
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