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SUMMARY:Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: A panel event
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DESCRIPTION:<strong>Participants</strong>\n\nJade Akoum\, sister of Youse
 f Makki\, campaigner\n\nDavid Conn\, The Guardian\n\nProfessor Eithne Qu
 inn\, The University of Manchester\n\nPete Weatherby KC\, Garden Court N
 orth\n\nDr Patrick Williams\, Harm to Healing Coalition\n\n\n<strong>Abo
 ut the event</strong>\n\nThis panel centres the experiences of Jade Akou
 m\, the sister of Yousef Makki who was killed in 2019 in a Manchester su
 burb at the age of 17. Jade will reflect on the long\, traumatic battle 
 of her family through different processes in the legal system that final
 ly led\, in 2023\, to an inquest ruling that Yousef had been unlawfully 
 killed. Pete Weatherby KC represented the Makki family at this inquest.\
 n\nThis high-profile case offers an important lens through which to cons
 ider problems in the approach of the criminal legal system for working-c
 lass and racially-minoritised people. It also serves as a counterpoint\,
  as repeatedly cited in parliament\, to other controversial Manchester p
 rosecutions in which strategies of collective punishment can harm young 
 people.\n\nThis panel asks what the Makki family's experiences tell us a
 bout legal system faultlines\, and what reforms are needed to promote ju
 stice and equity in (and beyond) the courts.\n\nThis is the final event 
 of the Simon Fellowship of award-winning\, Manchester-born journalist Da
 vid Conn at The University of Manchester\, who is conducting a project w
 ith researchers on ‘Promoting Truth-finding in the Adversarial Court Sys
 tem’\, with a particular focus on the North West region.\n\n\n\n<strong>
 Speaker Biographies</strong>\n\nJade Akoum is a campaigner for justice a
 nd the author of a book titled The Boy with a Pound in his Pocket (2022)
 . The book shares her younger brother Yousef’s story and her family's st
 ruggle for truth and justice. Jade lives in Manchester with her husband 
 Mazen and four children.\n\nDavid Conn is an investigations corresponden
 t for The Guardian\, and author of four books. He has reported on the Hi
 llsborough disaster and the bereaved families' campaign for justice for 
 almost 30 years. He has also written in-depth about the legal system and
  many justice issues\, including the 2017 Moss Side joint enterprise cas
 e\, which has been subject to numerous appeals and criticism. David rece
 ived the Paul Foot award for investigative and campaigning journalism in
  2023\, and the 2024 news reporter of the year in the Press Awards.\n\nE
 ithne Quinn is Professor of Cultural & Socio-Legal Studies at The Univer
 sity of Manchester. Her work focuses on race and inequalities in the leg
 al sector and cultural industries. Eithne is the author of two books and
  a co-author of two reports Racial Bias and the Bench: A response to the
  Judicial Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (2020-25) and Compound Injust
 ice: A review of cases involving rap music evidence in England and Wales
 . She is hosting David Conn’s Simon Fellowship at the University of Manc
 hester.\n\nDr Patrick Williams is a researcher and scholar\, based at th
 e Harm to Healing Coalition\, who works in-service to community groups\,
  movements and organisations who are resisting the harms of the Criminal
  Legal Systems of England and Wales and Europe. He is co-author of many 
 reports\, including Dangerous Associations: Joint Enterprise\, Gangs and
  Racism\, and papers documenting the pains of criminal injustice\, payin
 g particular attention to collective forms of punishments. His work focu
 ses in-depth on modalities of injustice and processes of criminalisation
 .\n\nPete Weatherby KC is a founding member of Garden Court North Chambe
 rs. Pete was the Makki-Akoum family’s lawyer at the second inquest which
  achieved the unlawful killing ruling. He is a human rights barrister wh
 o has appeared at all levels of the domestic legal system and in a numbe
 r of international courts and tribunals including Strasbourg. He represe
 nted bereaved families at public inquiries and inquests\, including Hill
 sborough\, Grenfell\, Manchester Arena\, Covid and the Undercover Polici
 ng Inquiries. Pete is one of the main drafters of the Public Authority (
 Accountability) Bill 2017 (Hillsborough Law).\n\n\nAll are welcome\, ple
 ase book your free place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reflecting
 -on-manchester-criminal-prosecutions-a-panel-event-tickets-1784776317009
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LOCATION:SLG12\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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