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Remembering Sarah Reed

Beaten by a Metropolitan police officer in 2012. Found dead in a prison cell in 2016. Sarah Reed, a black woman, mother, daughter, sister, whose smile could light up a room.

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Demonstration, HMP Holloway, 8 February 2016. Images by Wasi Daniju. All rights reserved.

On Monday night hundreds of people gathered outside Holloway Prison in North London to mourn the death of Sarah Reed, a young black woman whose assault at the hands of a Metropolitan police officer made headlines two years ago.

Sarah, aged 32, was found dead in her cell at Holloway Prison on 11 January. In October last year Sarah told her family that she was a victim of attempted rape whilst on a secure ward at Maudsley Hospital in South London, and that she fought back. Sarah was charged with assault and remanded to prison, where she died. She is survived by a teenage daughter.