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19.06.2024 - 18:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A prison officer has been found guilty of perjury but a colleague has been cleared of the same allegation. The two former Strangeways officers allegedly gave false information during the inquest into the death of a man in custody, prosecutors claimed.
Minshull Street Crown Court previously heard that John Edward Ahmed was a remand inmate at HMP Manchester when he died on July 29, 2015, following a 'restraint incident' in the prison’s segregation unit. An inquest was held into his death in 2017, it was said.
Mr Ahmed came to the attention of police officers whilst out in the exercise yard when he was passed a package, it was said. That morning Mr Ahmed was taken to an empty cell so that he could be searched in relation to the package. He became stressed and agitated and it was decided that he needed to be restrained, the court heard.
He was taken under escort to the segregation unit, before Mr Raymond Cook and another officer went into the cell to undertake a search of him. It was during this an incident occurred and Mr Ahmed was restrained prone on the ground, prosecutors said.
The coroner invited the jury to determine whether the restraint of Mr Ahmed in the segregation unit had been lawful and whether whilst in that unit, Mr Ahmed had sought to strike any of the officers who were dealing with him, jurors heard.
Mr Cook, 54, and Mark Bedford, 39, were each serving prison officers in the segregation unit at the time that Mr Ahmed was taken to the unit at the time he died, prosecutors said. Mr Cook was directly involved in the restraint and Mr Bedford was a witness to aspects of it, and responsible for the log relating to it, it was said. They both gave evidence at the inquest.
Today Mr Cook was found guilty by a jury of
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