Accused climbed down scaffolding outside building in effort to avoid arrest ...

Two police officers joked about using a full can of Pava spray on a 92-year-old care home resident who had just been tasered and arrested, a court has heard. Body-worn video footage of officers in the ...

PAVA spray is used in a Fenland jail almost four times as much as in four other top security prisons combined, according to a report published today.

Two police officers who pepper-sprayed and tasered a 92-year-old amputee while responding to a call at his care home “used force first and asked questions later”, a jury was told. The care home had ...

The High Court has ruled that it is lawful for PAVA synthetic pepper spray to be used by prison officers against children in ...

Last year, the Howard League for Penal Reform began receiving calls about children incarcerated in English prisons who had been sprayed in the eyes by prison officers armed with a new kind of ...

The discriminatory use of pepper spray against Black inmates has been “normalised” in male prisons, campaigners say, as new figures show a shocking spike in cases. The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man stole police spray before assaulting officers and climbing onto a building roof on January 18 (Image: Presshop) A man has ...

The High Court has delivered its verdict ...

A charity has lost a High Court challenge over a decision to allow incapacitant spray to be used on children at a young offenders institution near York. The Howard League for Penal Reform took legal ...

Prison officers in young offender institutions (YOIs) will start using synthetic pepper spray from this summer in a bid to combat rising violence from inmates, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has ...