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Sands decided that other prisoners should join the strike at staggered intervals to maximise publicity with prisoners steadily deteriorating successively over several months. The hunger strike centred on five demands: the right not to wear a prison uniform; the right not to do prison work; the right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits; the right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week; full restoration of remission lost through the protest. Sands died on 5 May 1981 in Maze Prison Hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking.
(1 March 1981)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

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Ranelagh Gardens, Fulham, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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Wednesday 23rd of July 1986 (-) — Victim of Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler Florence Tisdall is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler.
Tisdall was partly deaf and blind and could only move around with the aid of a walking frame. On this day she had managed a rare trip out to have her hair done especially for the occasion of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York which was being broadcast on television that day. She was Erskine's last victim.