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The Guardian // World // Europe

Guardian prison columnist Erwin James drowned in Devon marina, inquest finds

Wednesday 8th October 2025, 1:25PM

Journalist who wrote column A Life Inside while jailed for murder fell into the sea in January 2024A journalist and author who wrote much-admired columns from prison drowned in a Devon marina after spending an evening in a harbourside pub, an inquest has concluded.Erwin James Monahan, who used the pen name Erwin James and wrote a regular column for the Guardian – the first of its kind in British journalism – fell into the sea at Brixham in Devon, close to where the boat he was staying in was moored, the inquest in Exeter heard. Continue reading...

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