Media Alert - Deaths in Custody Watch Committee calls public protest actions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, 1 July 2010

Deaths in Custody Watch Committee calls public protest actions

Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (WA) spokesperson, Marc Newhouse today announced a series of protest actions to be held following the Director of Public Prosecutions’ decision not to lay criminal charges against any of the parties responsible for the death in custody of Mr Ward in 2008.

“We are unmoved in our belief that the Department of Corrective Services, G4S and the two G4S guards all need to be held accountable for their roles in Mr Ward’s death” Mr Newhouse said.

“This is not the end. We will leave no stone unturned in our fight for justice for Mr Ward”.

Emergency Public Protest: Friday, 2 July at 12:30PM
DPP Office ‘International House’, 26 St Georges Terrace

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Major Public Protest Rally and March: Sunday 11 July at 1PM
Supreme Court Gardens, cnr Barrack St & St George’s Tce, Perth

Media Contacts: Marc Newhouse, Spokesperson Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (WA), 0415 074 602.