Guards who restrained tragic Allan Marshall were the first to be granted immunity from prosecution in five years of prison death investigations.
A total of 135 fatal accident inquiries (FAIs) about inmates dying behind bars were conducted over that time. However, staff involved in attempting to place Mr Marshall, 30, under their control at Edinburgh’s HMP Saughton were the only ones to be informed they would not face criminal charges.
Lord Advocate James Wolffe, Scotland’s most senior prosecutor, admitted the extraordinary move in a letter to Holyrood’s justice committee.He confirmed his decision was unprecedented in any custody death FAI between 2014 and 2019.Now Scottish Labour’s justice spokesman James Kelly has demanded that Wolffe
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