Lads! I finally have an answer to one of my mystery cases that I talked about previously - thread 14, post #605 - although questions remain (I'll get to them)
Iron Miah was shot in the head in November 2019, seven months after his release from prison.
www.bbc.co.uk
So, it was about drugs, which I suspected - people don't generally get shot in the head for no reason - and I was right - there had been two previous trials.
No mention of the prison officer I spoke about in my previous post - she's not been on trial with them - but, interestingly this time, when I just Googled the victim's name, this popped up, even though no one is actually mentioned by name in this report. Maybe it's always been there and I've just never spotted it - it's weird though.
A PRISON officer at Britain’s toughest jail has been arrested for allegedly providing a false alibi for a murder suspect. Her lies were said to have been cooked up to help a defendant on trial for …
www.thesun.co.uk
Anyway, as we speculated, it looks like she got involved in something dodgy in prison with them and, by the wording in both of these reports, this
bleeping idiot was the reason the second trial collapsed. I wonder if she'll be sentenced with them later this month (maybe she's pleaded guilty) or if we'll have a whole new trial based on what she allegedly did, together with all the defendants, as they previously appeared on the court listings