Penal reformers and ex-offenders criticise decision to halt programme in wake of Fishmongers’ Hall deaths
A group of criminologists, penal reformers and ex-offenders have expressed “dismay” at Cambridge University’s decision to scrap a programme that taught prisoners alongside students after the deadly attack at Fishmongers’ Hall at one of its events.
They include some of the people who survived the attack by terrorist Usman Khan when he stabbed to death Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, while wearing a fake suicide vest. The November 2019 killings occurred at an event to mark the fifth anniversary of the prisoner education scheme Learning Together.
