Inmate who staged rooftop prison protest partially cleared after using ‘cruel’ indefinite IPP jail term as defence
A prisoner, who was sentenced to an uncertain imprisonment, was cleaned up of a large number of criminal damages to the maximum security prison after using the wage of his sentence as a legally believed defense.
Joe Outlaw, a ADHD, anxiety, paranoia and obsessive compulsive disorder, said that he was “absolutely desperate ve and asked for help when HMP Frankland attacked.
On Monday, in May 2023, he was acquitted with 12 census damage to the prison in Brasside in Durham.
However, two points were found guilty of penalties, and on May 26, 2023, he was sentenced to three years in prison for damaging a cell wall and organized a roof protest the following month, which resulted in more than £ more than £ 170,000.
The 39 -year -old boy was sentenced to about 14 years in prison after he was sentenced to Public Protection (IPP) to rob a package service with an imitation fiery weapon.
It was said that the jury members in the Teesside Crown Court were repeatedly described as a “stain ve and linked to higher suicide and self -harm on the prison term, which was scrapped in 2012, and at least 90 prisoners put their lives in jail.
Following the decision, Outlaw thanked Christopher Tehrani KC, and the law team, and promised to continue to fight for those who were stuck under IPP imprisonment.
“When I went on that roof, I was definitely desperate thinking that I was going to die,” he said. Im I wanted help for days. I wasn’t trying to hurt anyone – I just had to escape and feel safe in a system that made it almost impossible. That was the only way I felt I could survive.
“Even though I haven’t received the result I hoped, I don’t give up. Justice, for change, and for those who are still quietly stuck under the IPP system, I will continue to push it. This fight is not over.”
Outlaw, who gave evidence during a week of a week, said that he started to be sentenced to a few years of imprisonment when he started to lose his hope that he would be released.
Outlaw, who believes that he has been held in 44 different prisons since the IPP sentence was given, said, “It only destroys the soul,” he said.
“Cut yourself to save the pain to avoid disappointment when you hope to invest in this hope and when you go. This is his truth.”
In total, his sentence has been discriminated against for almost seven years.
Due to the worsening paranoia about people engaged in food during the pandemi, a tin of tin in 2020 was moved to a special diet of pre -packaged noodles and cousin lamb.
However, when he was transferred to Frankland in May 2023, his usual diet was rejected because the prison staff said it could be used as a tin weapon.
Outlaw said that after a similar roof protest after a similar roof protest, after a similar roof protest, after being transferred to the court weeks before HMP Manchester was transferred to HMP Manchester, after quickly receiving their own lives.
He said that the jury staff in Frankland “stoned me by hungry, and in other prison discrimination units, the officers could meet the diet needs by opening the boxes in front of the boxes and passing tuna.
He told the court that he was afraid that prison officers would kill him after he was forced to withdraw from his cell on May 25th, fixed him face to face, and took two blows on his back while his clothes were cut off. Later, he was punched in his face and was thrown into a strip search cell with only suicide prevention turmoil.
Iler They thought they could get rid of everything and I thought I had to do something, ”he said.
The images played to the jury showed only underwear, just dressed in underwear, and showed the separation security measures on June 21, 2023 using a piece of fracture heating pipe that attracted the roof tiles from the building.
In reducing, young lawyer Jamie Adams said that Outlaw has been “mentally crushed” for many years with the inequality of the IPP system.
Middlesbrough’s record -recorded Francis Laird K, the prison caused “tremendous” damage to the C, IPP sentence, “IPP sentence” undoubtedly both mental and psychological health affects your health, “he said.
“You also developed a complete sense of despair as a result of the ambiguous nature of your sentence,” he added.
However, Outlaw said that he had many previous convictions for criminal damage in other prisons and that he was attacked by prison officials and was not afraid of further violence.
In February of this year, UN torture Special Rapporteur Dr. Alice Jill Edwards warned that those who stand in IPP were exposed to “psychological torture ve and warned the government’s possibility of violating human rights according to international standards”.
He asked the government to revive approximately 2,500, which was just sentenced to “inhuman” imprisonment.
