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‘Indefensible’: Coroner blasts indefinite jail terms after prisoner’s suicide 17 years into 23 month sentence

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‘Indefensible’: Coroner blasts indefinite jail terms after prisoner’s suicide 17 years into 23 month sentence

Sentenced to 23 months in prison in 2005, Scott Rider was still in jail 17 years later, becoming one of Britain’s longest serving IPP prisoners

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