Pauline Speaks
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Pauline had been a tireless campaigner against the deaths of women in prison and psychiatric custody ever since the tragic death of her own daughter, Sarah, in 2003.
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Farewell Pauline
Prisons campaigner laid to rest
published: 30th May 2008
all credits: BBC News
Mourners have gathered for the funeral of a prisons campaigner who was found dead near her daughter’s grave. Pauline Campbell, 60, originally from Whitchurch, Shropshire, was found dead in Malpas, Cheshire, on 15 May.
A service was held at Saint Alkmund’s Church in Whitchurch followed by a private burial at Malpas cemetery. Her family said Mrs Campbell began a “tireless campaign” after her daughter Sarah died of a drug overdose at Styal prison, Cheshire, in 2003. Mrs Campbell spent five years highlighting the number of deaths that occurred every year in prisons and took part in many demonstrations.
‘Passionate campaigner’
Representatives from the Howard League for Penal Reform and the pressure group Inquest joined her family and friends at the funeral. In a tribute read to the service by her colleague, Sian Griffiths, Inquest co-director Deborah Coles said Mrs Campbell was a “fearless, formidable and passionate campaigner and a persistent thorn in the side of the state”.
