my name's sue bear I live with my
daughter Maisie and my son friend on the
Isle of Wight in right
my husband John their dad is currently
serving prison sentence in Wolverhampton
a champion John beer was convicted of
drug smuggling in 2011 and he's serving
a twenty four year sentence so we've
been married since 1993
so that's 27 years this year we've got
three lovely children and a lovely
granddaughter main concerns gosh is the
the corona virus spreading around the
prisons it will spread like wildfire
because it starts shortages there's
gonna be frustration there's gonna be
some people if they've been on locked up
for a long time haven't been able to
contact their loved ones you know really
I just think it's going to be quite
dangerous and he's quite scared had to
cancel a visit to see John which we all
look forward to it recharged our
batteries you know go and have a good
sitting good a couple of hours having a
laugh a joke but family life we're all
missing that we said last night didn't
we Mae's not being able to have a hug
because we cannot hug each other
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Saturday morning early haven't heard
from John yet this morning read a few
articles online last night and this
morning about the corona virus now being
in prisons yeah your head starts playing
games of you and you don't hear from him
there's talk and those knees as a
malignant of some new space no offense a
possibility of releasing people at least
they've got I think would be a temporary
basis but it's out there in the media
maybe it's been mentioned by someone
Elizabeth Donahue is serving a life
sentence for the murder of her husband
in 2004 she's my daughter and that's
been 16 years just on my ward
she rings me every day yeah because I
can train her but if she rings me she
worries about me I said oh I'll be all
right don't worry about me I miss her so
much in 2014
Alex Henry was convicted of murder as a
secondary party under the law of joint
enterprise he was sentenced to a minimum
of 19 years in prison
alex is autistic that means that he's
socially naive and he may not realize
the devastation this virus pandemic
could cause I'm really worried about my
son's mental health because if he's on
lockdown for a really long time
he might get distressed and God forbid
he has some suicidal thoughts if Alex
was to catch Cove at 19 he could be in
kind of really dire straits would we
even be told about it would we know
about it how would we help him
they are kept in long-term solitary
confinement in IE and the cell on their
own that is really really going to do a
lot of harm since my brother was
convicted I began training as a lawyer
I'm qualifying quite shortly
and so I I can not only see it from a
relative's point of view but also from
my experience in practicing law and also
a lot of my fears are echoed by the
families of my clients as well we know
that the effect on young people has
actually been downplayed we also know
that people in prison they're
susceptible to illnesses because they're
not out in the population so much that
their antibodies are lower their
nutrition isn't as good as what people
would have when they were able to buy it
themselves on the outside we've come out
for dropping got a little bit bored
didn't we kids stay inside on a lovely
bright day like today it's blown a
huling out there winds bitterly cold
grits too nice we sat indoors so yeah
still self isolating but in a click on a
car at the beach see we can still do
this dad can't connect it's definitely a
bit of an insight into life isn't it yes
behind bars you feel like you're
prisoner I'm cheerful watching other
people but not being able to speak to
any of them as well well understand
endorses that can you know because
I can't make an appointment there's no
dessert she pulled last night and I went
person ended up filed asking about you
know you're right
yeah more acid be careful keep washing
your hands and are you getting they
deliver stuff for you
they she said yeah they're given them
stuff so I see so please be careful
I don't wanna lose her