E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 76 406. The Special Rapporteur also informed the Government of continued concerns expressed by the sources of information in the case of Carmelo La Rosa, who was allegedly beaten severely by prison guards at Gazzi prison and on the night of 24-25 June 1992 was found hanging in his cell. In a communication of 14 November 1994, the Government had informed the Special Rapporteur that the forensic examination ordered by the Messina preliminary hearing judge "unequivocally concluded that La Rosa’s death by hanging was due to suicide". The source of the allegations noted that the allegations of ill-treatment against Carmelo La Rosa in the days preceding his death had not been addressed. In particular, the source indicated that a note by the President of the Messina Appeal Court stated that Carmelo La Rosa "shows on his shoulders and chest clear signs of blows from a blunt instrument which the accused claims to be a truncheon blow". In addition, the Court was said to have ordered that a copy of its record be passed immediately to the public prosecutor so that an order could be issued for an immediate medical examination at Gazzi prison clinic. The public prosecutor reportedly failed to order such an examination. Information received from the Government with respect to cases mentioned in previous reports 407. In its letter of 7 August 1995 the Government provided to the Special Rapporteur information on subsequent developments in cases to which it had initially replied on 14 November 1994. These replies are summarized in the paragraphs below. 408. The Court of Assizes on 26 January 1995 acquitted two Turin policemen of manslaughter charges, according to which they were alleged to have kicked Antonio Morabito, causing fatal intestinal haemorrhage. The Court concluded that they had resorted to lawful use of physical coercion. An appeal against the decision was filed by the deceased’s relatives. 409. In the case of Creaute Arsenie, who was allegedly ill-treated by police in Milan, a criminal proceeding was opened against unknown persons on 19 May 1995. The case was placed on file for preliminary investigations. 410. As to allegations of ill-treatment in Secondigliano penitentiary in Naples, the public prosecutor’s office had opened a criminal proceeding against 65 officers belonging to the penitentiary police corps. The first hearing in this proceeding was scheduled for 5 November 1995. Jamaica Information transmitted to the Government 411. By letter dated 10 July 1995 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information indicating that children as young as 9 and 10 years old were held in police lock-ups, including Halfway Tree and Central lock-ups in Kingston, for long periods, sometimes in the same cells as adults. At the time of arrest and while detained in lock-ups, some children were allegedly subjected to physical and/or mental abuse during interrogation and were beaten and/or placed in dark cells, often in solitary confinement, as methods of discipline.