David Caldwell was sentenced to three months for minor theft offences in 1981. His sister Carol Kyle, who identified his body, believes he was strangled.

A teenager at the controversial Medomsley detention centre looked like he had been strangled before he died, his family told the Mirror . Tragic David Victor Caldwell was sentenced to three months for minor theft offences in 1981 when he was just 18. We told how his loved ones believed that he had been beaten up and bullied by staff there in the weeks before he died.

We tracked down his sister Carol Kyle, now 65, who identified his body. She revealed that there was clear evidence of him being strangled. She said: "There was bruising on his neck and on his arms. His neck was the worst. It was terrible to see him like that in the C

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