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Let me begin by thanking BIHR for asking me to join their very distinguished list of lunchtime lecturers. I am very pleased and honoured to have been invited.
I have chosen to dedicate this lecture to someone who knows a bit about how just the criminal justice system is. She is called Mrs Yvonne Scholes. She is the mother of a boy called Joseph and he is one of two people whose stories I propose to tell you today. I hope you will see why as we progress.
I have long been a supporter of the call for a public inquiry into what happened to Joseph Scholes. I am sure some of you have heard of him.. His story does not take long to tell. He had an unhappy childhood. It is said that he was severely sexually abused as a child by a member of his father’s family. As a teenager he suffered depression and began to do injuries to himself. In November 2001 he tried to kill himself by taking an overdose and jumping to the ground from a window. Ambulance staff came to take him to hospital. He attacked one of them. After the hospital had dealt with him he was charged and convicted for the attack on the ambulance worker. He became more disturbed and was then put into a children’s home to be looked after by the local authority. One night he went out from the children’s home with some other children and participated in stealing three mobile phones from people on the street. He was arrested and charged. Whilst waiting for the trial he slashed his face thirty times with a knife. The walls of his room were so covered with blood they had to be repainted. When the case came to trial on 15 March 2002 the court was told that he had serious mental problems. The judge after lengthy reflection gave him a two-year prison sentence and asked the proper authorities to take note of Joseph’s condition. The Youth Justice Board which allocates convicted children in England were asked to place him in a local authority secure unit with social services. But they did not. They sent him to a youth prison called Stoke Heath.
Because they were worried about him in the prison they put him in a special cell. To protect him they took away all his clothes and left him there naked except for a garment described by his mother as ‘not unlike a horse blanket’. On his ninth day in Stoke Heath prison Joseph, aged 16 years and one month, hanged himself with a sheet from the bars of his
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