The mother of Katie Allan, a student who died in Polmont YOI in 2018, criticised the prison system for failing to protect vulnerable inmates. A fatal accident inquiry found systemic failures contributed to Katie’s death, calling for changes to prevent similar tragedies. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00If the Scottish Government wish to, you know, throw money out at fatal accident inquiries
00:05and just forget about it, I think taxpayers should have something to say about that.
00:10The system is broken and what we want going forward is exactly what Amr outlined,
00:15is a complete overhaul of the fatal accident inquiry system in Scotland.
00:19We want non-means-tested legal aid funding for state-related deaths for families
00:25and we want the lifting of Crown immunity by the UK Government.