Beyond the obvious mental illness, however, were the lilly racist eter writen by Stewart from his various prison calls The act hatthese went unnoticed and unmonitored by be Prison Service has prompted many to question whether prisons are sale for black inmates, Zahid Mubarek came from a strong, loving and close ait fail, and whist they were shocked at ie harshness of Zaid’ sentence they hoped that shor spell in priton would belp him see the enor of his ways. Indeed, hisletters to his family show 4 young man who was keen to move away from petty crime, ‘The way in which Zahid died was horse beyond belief but the fuily kept asking: How did this happen?” They hadLto ‘igh forfour anda bal years perma the Government to ‘conduct Public Inquiry into Zahid's death and the-then Home ‘Secretary, David Blanket, refused. to-meet oe Speak 1 them. Sarath nara oper age Fas sipete geet tea. cinietRacirienecamr aga ‘matched only by Stephen Lavrence's family’s delerminatigd.1o cee arate secede Sass ieyuine sil cndctceumom “Tanika Gupta September 2005 Te like to thank the fl nal following people for thei help and porn wing ti ply: Clin Moses, Sued Grove te. ‘Amin Amin Muberek and Sajda Mubarek; Imran Khas 2» 23 October 1980 17 January 2000 8 February 2000 21 Marek 2000 28 March 2000 [November 2000 4 September 2001, March 2002 Timeline of events Zahid Mabarck bom st Whipps Cross Hoopla London Zabidis set to Fem Youg Ofer? Trt afer beng oud gulf aig Hepgardinndenbgiibemolorslite aber Stevart a poi offender fom the Manchester ara mavens ise cll ts Za Stewarts odd behaviours noted Ey otberinmats oursbefore 2ahirelese Sowtbatrs ‘him with a table,leg.as.he sleeps. Stewart roses he al rm bt Seven days ater, Zaid ds i hosp from hs jr, Stow angel wh Komurden Stewar is Found gly of murder a StBtonced fo fee's found tobe a pcp nd ott uncovers nen ‘rhisreist tendencies Thee wesks altri Jalling the Commission Racal-qualty omens lds ov vegan iter “Theta oto he Hgh Couto foethe Home Sevetry, Davié Bkinket, to hold dependent Nc fones Hooper fay rying Du Hace ariel edt Sse hs olpane ae Homan ign 4 The Court of Appeal throws ou deere 4 Seaion, slg with the Home Soeeary. ‘The judges say there 1s no need under Honian Rights law to hold an inguiry because it has been proven she-Beison Service as been at fal an ntertalingaiy ‘ar iventgated nd Robert Stearns en aed oh ie. aOctober 2002 The prisons watchdog sends team imide Feltham. It concludes thatthe jal had fandamentally changed and was ‘like stiles Joly 2008, The CRE publishes tts report into Zaha’ death, amid criticism over is ‘conclusions and the time taken to each them. CRE chairman Tevor Philips sys he convinced Zahid would not have diet Bedhe been whe The reportsays there wat ‘This play is dedicated tothe memory of Zahid Mabarek FSHAngealalogue of failure within he Prison Service. The family eect the report, sayings awed and eaves them none ie wiser ato why Zaid was sharing cell ih Stowe October 2003 The family tum othe Howse of Lords Lord Bingham, siting with Lords Sina, Sty, Hope and Hatton, overtms the Cour of Appeal and sdes wi he fy. They-ader e Home Seietayo hold an ngs. % April 2004 David Blunkett announces ‘The Zahid ‘Mubarek Inqairy’ 30 August 2004 The Inquiry begins. Phase One investigates the events leading up to Zahid Mubare’s death April 2005 Closing subimisions, Phase One 19 September 2005 Phase Two ofthe Inquiry begins. It holds | ‘he frat of sx seminars. The evens wll hp chairman, Mr Justice Keith, to ass what ‘recommendations he should make to the Home Secretary to minimise the chances of tragedy such as Zahid marder happening again, 5 October 2005 Phage ‘To of the Inquiry ends. ‘Ms Justice Keith hopes to deliver his report tothe Home Secretary in April 2006. (Soe BBG Monitring Grp, The Zhi Mader legn) 2Gladiator Games bad its World Premiere performed atthe Crucible Sto frm 20-29 October 2005; then performed at ‘Theatre Roya Stratford East fom 2-12 Novernber 2005, Restaged at Theatre Reyal Stratford East from 2-25 February 2006, Cast inorder of spuaking: NTIAZ ANN, ZABID MUBAREK Ray Panthaki RORERTSTEWART, DUNCANKEYS Kevin TFainor MAURICE TRAVIS JAMIEBARNES Paul Keating DMUBAREK AMIN,SURESHGROVER Shiv Grewal SIDA MUBAREK,SATWANTRANDHAWA Claire Lichie ‘All other parts played by members ofthe company Writer ‘Tanika Gupta Dirator Charlotte Westenra Daigner Paul Wills Lighting Designer Harley TA Kemp Composer Niraj Chag, Sound Designer Nick Greenhill Casting Leila Bertrand Assdant Director Zaha Ahmadi Dialeet Coach “Jeannette Nelson Pgh Director Bret Yount Production photographer Johann Persson Fox Shefild Dears ‘lage Manager Donna Reever Deputy Stage Manager Helena Lane-Smith Assistant Stage Manager _Jilie Davie ‘Stage Manager Julia Crammer Deputy Sage Manager ‘Altan Reyman Assit Stage Manager Rebecca Clatworthy Characters ANID MUDAREK i his father SAJIDA, his mother aM IATIAZ, his uncle [MARTIN NAREY, Director General, HM Prison Service COLIN MOSES, Chai, Prison Orficers’ Association DUNCAN KEYS, Assistant Secretary, POA NIGELHERRING, Branch Chairman, POA STEVEN MARTINDALE, Feltham prison officer DEBBIE HOGG, Feltham prison officer TAN MORSE, Feltham prison officer STEPHEN SKINNER, Feltham prison officer MALCOLM NICHOLSON, Feltham prison officer SSATWANT RANDHAWA, Feltham prison officer RODERT STEWART, prisoner MAURICE TRAVIS, prisoner {JAMIE BARNES, prisoner {JUSTICE KEITH, Judge at Inquiry DEXTER DIAS, barrister at Inquiry [NIGEL GIFFIN, barrister at Inquiry PADDY O'CONNOR, barsster at Inquiry 2sSURESH GROVER, Monitoring Group, Institute of Race Relations PROFESSOR GUNN, Insitute of Psychiatry, KCL, ‘LUCY BOGUE, Independent Monitoring Board, Feltham JUDY CLEMENTS, Race Equality Adviser, HM Prison Service DOCTOR, PRISON OFFICERS, INMATES, POLICE OFFICERS, ‘SPOKESPEOPLE 2% List of sources ‘Verbatim evidence from the Zahid Mubarek Inquiry ~ witness statements, oral and written [V1 ‘The Inquiry includes evidence from: ‘a MPS ~ Metropolitan Police Service [Via] b Butt Inguiry/Feltham Murder Report [V1] «Closing statements (Me) Interview three taped interviews taken with: 1 Imtiaz Amin and Suresh Grover atthe ‘Monitoring Group, Institute of Race Relations V2] 'b Colin Moses, Chair ofthe Prison Officers? Association IV2b] ¢ Sajida Mubarek and Mubarek Amin (Zahid’s parents) at theis home in Walthamstow [2a] Channel 4 documentary: Prison Works: the death of Zahid Mubarek’ 1] Panorama documentasy, BBC: ‘Boys Behind Bars’ (V4) ‘CRE (Commission for Racial Equality) Inquiry: witness statements (V8) Correspondence: 1 Zahid Mubarel’ letters from Feltham (V6) bb Robert Stewart’ Ieters from prism (VB) « Letters to the Mubarck family (Vl “Colour Bar’ leaflet 7) Justice Hooper's judgement 18] Justice Bingham’ statement (V8) aVerbatim text produced from these sources is marked ‘ith an asterisk in square brackets 4; the references are given at the end of the reproduced tex inthe form shown above (al, 1, et) Act One | ‘Anything unmarked isa dramatisation based on events / SCENE 1 hearsay 7 ‘An Aion main is mites ~ MIA — eps forward and adress, ‘the audience IMTIAZ: My name's Imtiaz Amin, Zahid was my eldest brother's son, (011m ton years older than Zahid. There were lof thingy wend in commen - ke eit, ein ma, deny gang rp Za wed ply recy at ey Pak rond he corer sre weve. A rp oth and some lads se ong eg Strang wi tesa an eit ate vas very lve os emus and ada groapo fen He wrvvery alt He dda year on ti Pic’ Tt my tnining thing was a cnfdence bling ting Tee jut gear people up for wor poole who may buf fom, erm I een problems - atever, Andi wes very milry ote, Zid seated to got the rm) He lr wed top i ad Vrorkngen hit ear dong up te Conorth loved that cheda Hie had a sense of humour, always joking with us ~ made same, But he got into trouble, Ended up serving a shor gatodad skatepet of ninety days at Feltham for stealing sb pounds! \Worth of razor blades and interfering with acar. Nobody ‘understood why he go sent down for what he did, Itwas, ‘twas a shock za) ‘Too BARRISTERS sp foreord. DIAS: 1 Dias, Chagos on behalf ofthe Mubarck family.TANIKA GUPTA ‘Wisabeoltly te that one could have fereast wth inate cerssy ton 20h Mach 2000 Robert Stewart wuld o dh Zhi in cel 83 Feltham, Swellow Wing Bu a doe this truly 09 te prison serves especily when one considers the vows teks ht ter presented? Mel caren (4 Gin “Cot forthe Zaid Mubarck Ing Closing statements. {pote the qieton: disaster wating to happen ora rsoner who didnot stand oul? There seems to have been {radial diconneton between theersepion of Stow andthe isk which he posed. The submisions which he Friton Service now makes to you come very close inde to saying ht in terms of handling, nothing relly went verongin his case and Zahid’ marder was dred bit ‘stentalyridom oc DIAS: "Ia simple terms, what do we think might happen ‘when we lock up a dangerous, severely mentally disordered, psychopathic racist in a cell for 20-plus hours with a young Asian who is in prison fr te fire time? The ‘opportunities to avert this tragedy lie settered across the prison records and inthe collective knowledge of Stewart (Gat the Prison Service had gained over his eximinl caret. te} GMIN: Tht tink, forthe Mark ay at nd cf hein ovine aero the eto How caused by the prion fcr. Nz SUDA eters SAJIDA: 1 We'd been atthe hospital al day, we came home tabout 1130 the evening hal a phone cll at about tone and when we got there, he'd already died. That was eval week ler he'd goto the hospital. 3) ‘he DOCTOR ull set er ZAHID' bad SURESH [4 The family wanted the body of Zahid quite ‘qui afer his death ~ for religious purposes but in ‘re oGonvit he person they needed the brain so we ‘were negotiating. Inthe end we agreed thatthe body ‘could be released without the brain, Te brain bad to be analysed for another ix weeks, Nal We hear thai sand of if spr machine’ ber Zan ay heed at. [MARTIN NAREY re-enters and approaches ILA ATU lst in ‘aught fora moment while NARBY stands aaa. Eventually {ETL looks up at NAREY. NAREY: Mr Amin, nema: Yes? [NAREY: Iwas thinking of planting @tre...n honour of Zaid's ‘memony.in the grounds of Fldbam. rt tks nando. nneTia2: Prater you ted epee. ‘anol actin nd eit ‘Aw days afer Zahid’ death DCLMeLeenan.. SURESH: The guy who interviewed Stews. a eetal eee eee eee oe TANIKA GUPTA INTIAZ Yes, .he showed us these letters that Stewart had ‘written in prison. There was this one in particular that he'd ‘written a month before Zahid was attacked. nevi reads STEWART eto. IMTIAZ: ("1 23RD FEB 2000 (CANNOT SEEIT STICKIN IN ERE. IFTDON'T GET BAN ON THE STH, PLL TAKE ‘XTREME MEASURE TO GET SHIPPED OUT, KILL ‘ME FUCKIN’ PADMATE IF I HAVE TO; BLEACH ME SHEETS AND PILLOWCASE WHITE AND MAKE 'AKLU KLUX KLAN OUTFIT AND WALK OUT ME PAD WIV A FLAMING CRUCIFIX AND CHANGE ‘THE CROSS ON MY HEAD TO A PLUS AND THEN ASWASTIKA WIV A BIRO. . SIGNED STEPHAN LAWRENCE: (6b) It-was disgusting. I mean, P've experienced feity racism all through my fe but this this was on anther evel Tt angry at Stewart = meun you're geting an insight into Someone's mind and you dont wanna be there. ‘SURESH: That was the moment for me. When I ist met Imi, ‘we did't tak about racism, It dida’t even occur tous that this was aracist attack, [IMTIAZ: No, not ata. Nota all. But Stewart’ eters changed all that. I couldnt understand how someone could kill Zahid for the colour ofbis..bloody skin. anus SURESH steps frward SURESH: (4 Notmany people would go through a death in & prison, come acros the prion who murdered the 0%, toll peyote... Jmean we saw Start at he mrder oi He was ivin'V sign to the father and iz aad everybody, shouting atthe jury mamber, he was 38 GLADIATOR GAMES: ACT ONE bsoltely barmy. His defence was that he's so racist he dida't now what he was doing. You don come across thre kind of things fs one ofthe few times when Pve sat ina court and thought My God what am I doing hi county? You fight onthe Lawrence cas, you think there's {ea changin this kind of attde and then you see someting ike tat someone like Stewart. And yo think ‘your whole energy and ine hasbeen wasted. And he Ihara rene About the thing, He has no respect forthe family. OFay, you killed the person because of whataver but you don’t have tobe extravagant inkling someone and alin your Fx. Tiss what be dd STEWART enter In November 2000 - Robert Stewart was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to life. ia the same day, we launched the campaign to gota Public Inquiry into the death of Zahid Mubarek. 2a] SCENE 3 “TRAVIS (Manche cent.) Maurice Tavs. Pye known ‘Robert fr about eight years, we metin ace hate when 1 was about twelve; he's slg younger han me..we're good mates and il contact eth other by leer now ‘We stared comming ime together, alors and got locked up ogee, T would sy he follows me, is ike he worships everything Td, he does. 8 ‘Wesee STEWART nd TRAVISsat in cll titer. They are laughing cand talking together in whispers. G6 00, T dare you fuckin sip. STEWART; Fuck of Taw TRAVIS: Go on, ie bea laugh, You got the matches. Do it STEWART: What's in ifr me? "TRAVIS. give you a fw burs 9