BRITAIN: Inquiry hears 'gladiator-style' fights led to murder

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:00

On March 3, a Prison Officers Association official told the inquiry into the 2000 murder of 19-year-old Zahid Mubarek in Feltham Young Offenders Institute that prison officers had been engineering "gladiator style" fights between inmates for entertainment. Duncan Keys, POA assistant secretary, told the inquiry that he had heard from union members at the prison that Feltham guards were running a "gladiator conspiracy", by putting racist inmates into cells with black and asian teenagers. Mubarek was beaten to death with a chair leg by his racist cellmate Robert Stewart, who is serving a life sentence for the killing. Mubarek was due for release the day of the attack.

From Green Left Weekly, March 16, 2005.

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