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Judicial

People of African descent have long had a difficult relationship with the criminal justice system in Hull and East Yorkshire. This section explores a variety of well-known and lesser-known cases.
Christopher Alder
The shocking story of the former paratrooper's 1998 death in police custody in Hull.
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Kwamina Annan Sey
African Chief's son who moved to Leeds to attend university in the early twentieth century.
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Frederick Brown
Guinean man who was charged with burglary in East Yorkshire in 1794 and worked in Whitby.
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Prince Eugene Bullen
Grenadian who was employed as a seaman in Hull and arrested for attempted murder in 1934.
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Nathaniel Calhoun
African American born in Boston, who moved to Hull by the turn of the twentieth century.
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Criminality
Between 1900 and 1950, over 120 people of African descent appeared in East Yorkshire courts.
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Frederick Harold
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Mixed-race man born in Swansea who was convicted of a number of offences in and around Hull.
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James Clinton Jordan
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US serviceman who was initially given the death penalty after fighting in Holme-on-Spalding Moor.
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George Michael and Theresa Hempstock
The story of a West Indian man who was executed after murdering his wife in East Yorkshire.
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Mahmood Hussein Mattan
A Somalian man wrongly convicted for murder in Cardiff on 6 March 1952 and executed shortly after.
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James Edward Philadelphia Moore
American man who moved to Scarborough and was arrested after attempting to commit suicide.
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David Oluwale
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Nigerian who arrived in Hull as a stowaway in 1949 and drowned in suspicious circumstances.
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Charles Goldbourne Steede
Barbabdian man who was accused of benefiting from the immoral earnings of a white woman.
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Suicide
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People of African descent and the act of suicide in Hull - historically a criminal act.
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