Parkhurst Prison
Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
Related events:
Monday 24th of January 1921 (-) — Presumed murderer Steinie Morrison dies after a series of hungerstrikes protesting his innocence
Monday 3rd of June 1974 (-) — Irish republican hunger striker Michael Gaughan dies after a hunger strike that lasted 64 days The British Government stated that Gaughan died of pneumonia; his family insisted that he died after prison doctors injured him fatally when food lodged in a lung punctured by a force-feeding tube.
Monday 10th of January 1983 (x) — Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is attacked with a broken coffee-jar by 35-year-old murderer Jimmy Costello in the F2 Hospital wing Sutcliffe needed 30 stitches. Costello was convicted of wounding with intent.