HM Prison Manchester

Around 700 offenders will leave prison today, with a further 3,500 expected to be released over the next year.

I'm LBC's Liam Gotting, outside HMP Manchester.

Off to the US with the extraordinary news you just heard on the LBC bulletin, ABC breaking the news that Krista Pike had survived two rounds of lethal injections.

We do begin with breaking news tonight.

Liam, good morning.

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on in nick yes well we expect at least some of the 700 prisoners to be released early from here at hmp manchester also known as strange ways prison as the government looks to tackle issues with prison capacity it appears a shift change is actually currently taking place here as hundreds of staff appear to be arriving and leaving at the same time in which case i wouldn't expect any prisoners to appear out of the gates here in front of me imminently.

It's been reported that releases will begin at around 8.30 this morning.

On 3 July 1989, he appeared before Stockport magistrates charged with Pamela's murder and was remanded in custody.

While awaiting trial, Bennell was on remand at Manchester Strangeways Prison.

Ronald Bennell was a particularly vulnerable man on remand at Strangeways, because he was accused of rape and murder, and previously had been convicted of a rape murder, and had been released from a life sentence before allegedly committing a similar offence.

As his case had received publicity and information circulated amongst prisoners, there was a realistic possibility that other inmates knew about his history, potentially making him a target, although there's no evidence that he was actually threatened.

Benall died on the 25th of January 1990 when he was found hanged in his cell while awaiting trial for Pamela Noone's murder, just 66 days before the strange way his rioting began.

His imprisonment therefore occurred amidst the severe overcrowding.

It was doubly overcrowded.

The prolonged cell confinement, poor sanitation and slopping out that characterised Strangeways immediately before the riots.

Dr. Hakim, which was not his name, was tried for murder at Manchester Assizes and found guilty.

He was hanged at Strangeways Prison three weeks later.

Same hangman who works for Scotland Yard officiated.

officiated.Heard in the honor of their appearance on Whitehall 1212 today were Harvey Hayes, Horace Braham, Pat O'Malley, Lester Fletcher, Patricia Courtley, and Maurice Delamore.

In August, a month after their conviction, the executions were scheduled for the morning of thirteenth August at two separate prisons.

Evans was set to be hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and Allen would meet his end at Walton Prison in Liverpool.

The two men did not know they shared the same fate.

Their separate executions underscored that there had been no coordination beyond the state’s judicial process.

Within two days, police had traced Allen and Evans through their fingerprints and evidence of previous petty crimes.

Both were arrested at separate locations: Allen on an empty flat near Liverpool, Evans in Manchester after a frantic flight from the scene.

The authorities framed the charge as capital murder.

West’s death had been committed while the offenders attempted to rob his premises, thereby invoking the law’s harshest penalty for homicide tied to robbery.

Their trial at Manchester Crown Court began in June nineteen sixty-four and was a tightly packed affair that lasted less than two days.

Both defendants maintained a narrative of mutual blame.

Allen insisted Evans had pulled the trigger first, while Evans claimed Allen was the one who killed West.

Both were found guilty on all counts of murder, with sentencing taking place immediately thereafter.

Yeah.

So I was like, right, well, it's near Strangeways Prison and there is no parking.

Right? And I'm heavily pregnant.

And I'm heavily pregnant.