Hillingdon man charged with child sex offences

Highlights

• British Asian prisoner Sundeep Ghuman murdered in February 2020 by racist cellmate at HMP Belmarsh.
• Coroner finds prison failed to follow policy preventing racist prisoners sharing cells with different ethnicities.
• Report raises concerns about widespread violence and drug use at the high-security prison.

A coroner has contacted the government with urgent safety concerns after a British Asian prisoner was murdered by a racist gang member who was wrongly placed in his cell at HMP Belmarsh.

Sundeep Ghuman died in February 2020 after being violently assaulted with a table leg by Stevie Hilden, a member of the so-called Racist Army of Woolwich. Hilden was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder in 2022.