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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Stanley Murphy-Johns

Footage shows prison officers laughing moments before restrained inmate’s death

Azroy Dawes-Clarke, 28, was an inmate at HMP Elmley, on the Isle of Sheppey when he died (PA) -

Bodyworn footage shows prison officers laughing and singing as an “inappropriate and disproportionate” restraint was carried out on an inmate moments before his death.

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.

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