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Evening Standard
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Callum Parke

Daughter settles legal claim against Government over father’s ‘degrading’ death

Alpha Kalay (left) with his daughter, Melanie Kalay (Melanie Kalay/PA) -

The daughter of a former firefighter and Royal Navy officer who suffered an “inhumane, degrading and undignified death” in prison has settled a High Court legal claim for a five-figure sum.

Melanie Kalay took legal action against the Ministry of Justice and the City Health Care Partnership, which provides health and care services, under the Human Rights Act over the death of her father, Alpha Kalay.

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