RE: THE ZAHID MUBAREK INQUIRY WITNESS STATEMENT OF ...

10. I took the responsibility of seeing each prisoner on arrival, primarily to check thatthe Warrant for their detention was correct and also that they fell within therelevant age group i.e. over 18 but under 21 years. If there were a medical issuethen this would be dealt with by one of the medical staff and/or the doctor. Havingmade the initial important checks I would then pass the prisoner to my staff toprocess.11. We used to receive up to 100 prisoners every weekday. Many were already inthe prison system but it was possible for us to receive entirely new prisoners i.e.those who had been arrested that morning, taken to Court and remanded incustody. In relation to these new prisoners we would create the initial paperworkthat would subsequently become part of their core file.12. Not only, as a London prison, were we extremely busy but, at short notice, wewould also receive prisoners whose trial had over run and where there was nottime to take them back to prisons such as Aylesbury, Reading and Lewes i.e.from a very wide area. In those cases we would get a short notice call fromGroup 4. I remember there were some occasions when we had no space at allbut that prisoners would arrive and there was absolutely no choice but for us totake them as there was literally nowhere else for them to go.Zahid Mubarek13. So far as I am aware during my time at Feltham I never met or had any contactwith Zahid Mubarek.Robert Stewart14. On 10 January 2000 Robert Stewart came on the Induction Wing. I noticed thathe had "R.I.P." tattooed on his forehead and also had a number of other tattoos.It was, in fact, not unusual for prisoners to have many tattoos including thosevisible on the neck and/or face. I cannot recall for certain now if I carried out theinductioninterview myself, but I am sure I talked to him.3 -923-