Free books offered to Londoners in police custody

Books in the Nick scheme is offering a range of titles to prisoners for free, by authors from Andy McNab to Alan Bennett

A new scheme that offers books to prisoners in police custody has started in London.

Books in the Nick was dreamed up by Metropolitan police special constable Steve Whitmore, after he arrested an 18-year-old on suspicion of assault and possession of drugs earlier this year. The teenager asked Whitmore if he could borrow a book to read while he was in custody, but the special constable could not find anything that would have been of interest to the young man.

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