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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rebecca Speare-Cole

Serco’s ‘systemic failures’ led to fatal attack on custody officer, court hears

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The “serious and systemic failures” of courts security contractor Serco led to a mentally ill prisoner kicking a custody officer to death, a court had heard.

Humphrey Burke, 28, attacked 54-year-old Lorraine Barwell as she tried to escort him from his cell in Blackfriars Crown Court in central London, in June 2015.

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