British Prison Rioters Face Murder Charges
<i> Reuter</i>
MANCHESTER, England —
Five prison inmates went on trial Wednesday, charged with murdering a sex offender during one of Britain’s worst jail riots in decades.
Strangeways Prison was in the hands of rampaging prisoners for 25 days during a 1990 disturbance. Some of the rioters broke into a segregated wing housing sex offenders, often loathed by other convicts.
Several were attacked, and one, Derek White, died a few days after suffering multiple injuries to the head and chest.
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