In “‘Deaths are not just happening in the US’; why activists brought the Black Lives movement to UK” (News, last week, page 6), we quoted the co-creator of UK Black Lives Matter as saying: “In Britain, somebody dies every six days in police custody.” We should clarify that the claim is drawn from figures compiled by INQUEST that show that 1,565 people have died over the past 26 years while in contact with police, whether or not they have been arrested. The death may not necessarily have occurred inside a police station. The figures do not include self-inflicted deaths following contact with police.
Focus on pictures: our front-page photograph from the Brighton Pride festival last week was incorrectly credited. It was the work of Lee Thomas. Apologies. And “Demolition threat looms for great Victorian buildings from English fishing’s golden age” (News, last week, page 12) was partly illustrated with a photograph of Alexandra Dock, standing , we said, “neglected and in decay”, but the large building in the picture, Victoria Mills, has now been converted into flats. It is the derelict dockside buildings not shown in the photograph that are in peril.
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