Ms Robins added: He was tripped up in a car park and fell to the ground where he was ferociously kicked

Ms Robins added: “He was tripped up in a car park and fell to the ground where he was ferociously kicked by four soldiers.”L/Cpls Baillie, and Justin Woodcock, 22, and Privates Craig Harris, 23, and James Collins, 21, were appearing for sentence at Winchester Crown Court after they had earlier admitted unlawfully wounding Mr McGuire. They denied charges of violent disorder and inflicting grievous bodily harm.Baillie was out celebrating his promotion to Lance Corporal, said Ian Hughes, defending. Captain Philip Dove described them as “excellent soldiers” trained to react in situations of violence.Baillie was ordered to complete 200 hours community service and told to pay Mr McGuire £4,000 compensation. Collins, Woodcock and Harris were each ordered to complete 180 hours community service, and to pay £3,000 compensation to each.Mr McGuire reacted angrily to the sentences, describing them as “disgraceful”.

He said he would also be taking the matter up with the Secretary of State for Defence and said that the military authorities ought to take disciplinary action.”If the judge had four civilians in court for doing this to a soldier they would definitely go to prison. I was just minding my own business when these men started to attack me for no reason. I tried to run to a police station but they caught me and kicked hell out of me.

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I could hear the bones in my arms cracking,” he said.”None of them ever apologised to me,” he added. “They seemed more worried about the disgrace brought upon their regiment.”. Eighty per cent of the women in Styal jail are using hard drugs – mainly heroin. And virtually all of the 200 inmates in the Cheshire closed prison are taking some kind of illicit substance.

In one of his most devastating reports into a jail, Judge Stephen Tumim, Chief Inspector of Prisons says women are entering as shoplifters and leaving as drug addicts.
Fears that up to 100 of them are sharing needles to inject heroin, cocaine and crack, has prompted the judge for the first time to recommend a needle exchange scheme within the jail because of the dangers of spreading HIV and hepatitis – not just to other inmates but through them to the outside community.He said the discovery of used needles in the jail was “common” and believed most of the drugs entering Styal were being thrown over the fence or smuggled in by prisoners who had been on home leave.None of the 133 prisons in England and Wales have either a needle exchange scheme or provide sterilising equipment to prisoners – but following the first ever detected outbreak of HIV among inmates in Glenochil prison, Scottish jails have set up such schemes.Yesterday the call was supported by the Association of Chief Officers of Probation, which said the proposal was “sensible and pragmatic”, but said attention needed to focus on how to reduce drug abuse with the system.The picture of almost universal drug abuse within Styal is unprecedented in a jail – although the general availability of just about every kind of substance throughout the prison system has been a concern for years.Health care staff told the inspector that up to 90 per cent of prisoners – which include young offenders and mothers with their young babies – were using drugs during their stay in Styal. However it is not known whether any mothers are among the drug abusers.A special appendix to the report by Dr Malcolm Faulk, the inspectorate’s medical consultant, said that both staff and prisoners agreed almost all prisoners used cannabis, 80 per cent used opiates, mainly heroin, 50 per cent used cocaine or crack, 15-20 per cent used amphetamines, 10 per cent occasionally used LSD and 60 per cent used tranquillisers.While a lot of prisoners wanted to give up their habit, it was impossible without a proper withdrawal regime and a drug free environment.”There was no detoxification process and little rehabilitation except for a self help group promoted by health care and probation staff,” says the report.Yesterday the Prison Service said that Styal is one of the prisons where compulsory drug testing is to be introduced – probably in the summer.Mike Goodwin, the governor who took just before Judge Tumim’s unannounced visit last July, challenged the report’s findings “I don’t believe this prison turns shoplifters into junkies The evidence about drugs is mainly anecdotal.”. Andrew Jaspan was yesterday named editor of the Observer by the Scott Trust, the owners of the newspaper. Mr Jaspan, 42, currently editor of the Scotsman, replaces Jonathan Fenby who resigned last month after 18 months with the paper. According to a statement, he was the unanimous recommendation of the selection committee appointed by the trust.
Hugo Young, chairman of the trust, said Mr Jaspan had “all the qualities to be a fine editor of the Observer.”When the trust bought the Observer from Lonrho in 1993 the title’s sales, then falling, stood at just over 500,000.Circulation has steadily declined to around 470,000, despite a series of scoops, including the revelation that the British government had been engaged in secret talks with the IRA long before No 10 was prepared to admit the links that led to the Downing Street Declaration in December 1993.

The paper has also continued to lose money.When Peter Preston, editor-in-chief of the Observer and the Guardian, announced the changes last month, he told staff that he wanted the paper “to feel loved and cherished” and that this was to be achieved by “motoring forward”.Although a seven-day operation is not expected, the company has said that the changes would “maximise the use of editorial talent and resources available to the two newspapers” and that both would retain separate identities.Many senior staff privately fear that Mr Jaspan’s appointment is based on a reputation for being “a cost-cutter not afraid to shake things up” and have questioned his suitability for the post.However, Mr Jaspan said: “I have one aim, namely to strive to reinforce the values and distinguised traditions of the Observer and help ensure it plays a vital role at the heart of British politics and society.”While critics at the Observer see him as an astute operator, rather than a true visionary, supporters praise an energetic, occasionally abrasive, manner which “makes things happen”. They say he will not be weighed down by the intellectual baggage of the old Left that has appeared to inhibit the paper’s attempts to reinvigorate itself and “leap forward a generation”.Diary, page 17. Britain’s largest health authority is expanding its intensive care unit at a cost of £1m after a 67-year-old man died while waiting for an intensive care bed. Health chiefs in Strathclyde acknowledged that four new ICU beds were needed when the intensive care system, in which the six acute hospitals in Glasgow share 22 beds, collapsed and the pensioner, James McGowan, died.
Mr McGowan had been admitted to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary last year suffering from a life-threatening blocked artery. He did not receive immediate treatment because all the intensive care beds in Glasgow were occupied. As doctors “rang round” local hospitals to find a bed, he died.The incident, which will be examined in a fatal accident inquiry later this week, prompted Greater Glasgow Health Board to review its intensive care services.

In December the board, which provides health care for more than 1m people, agreed to open four new beds at a cost of more than £200,000 each.Patients at the 800-bed Glasgow Royal Infirmary will be the first to benefit from the new service when two new beds are installed in the hospital’s ICU this Saturday Intensive care staff have welcomed the decision. The existing five permanent beds were,they say, inadequate.Dr Bill Anderson, clinical director of the hospital’s ICU, said: “We were getting uncomfortably close to operating at 90 per cent capacity on average which is far too high. It meant we were having to turn away patients and send them to ICU’s at other hospitals on a daily basis.”The expanded unit will be permanently staffed by 12 trained nurses. Dr Anderson said that in the past the hospital had found it hard to recruit specialist ICU staff but recently they had succeeded in re-training their own nurses for the unit.The hospital had, he added, recently set up a high dependency recovery unit as a “clinical stepping stone” between the ICU and ordinary wards. The new unit enabled doctors to discharge patients from the ICU sooner and with greater confidence that they would survive.Dr Anderson said there was “little or no” evidence that patients who had a slim chance of survival were taking up ICU beds. He said: “If someone has, for example, a massive brain haemorrhage and we know they will not live, in general, we do not admit them. The same goes for most hospitals in Britain.”There is a high sickness threshold for admittance to an ICU Few people are admitted who should not be there.”.