This updated policy introduces a new Charter for prisons on protecting and safeguarding adult prisoners from abuse and neglect. It covers: identifying and meeting a prisoner’s needs preventing abuse or neglect reporting suspected abuse or neglect investigating and dealing with reports of abuse or neglect monitoring and analysis of safeguarding information engaging with local authorities […]
Three prisoners were taken to hospital after a disturbance broke out at a County Durham jail, The Northern Echo reports. Officers donning riot shields and helmets stormed HMP Deerbolt in Barnard Castle following an incident on Monday (January 12). Footage seen by The Northern Echo showed prison guards walking through the Category C prison and young […]
A prisoner launched a “frenzied attack” on a fellow inmate at a Nottinghamshire prisoner in which he repeatedly stabbed him in the back. Damien Munroe, assaulted another prisoner from behind while he was eating on the landing of HMP Lowdham Grange on December 10, 2022, causing injuries to his face, neck and back. Nottingham Crown […]
A prisoner charged with the murder of a fellow inmate at a high-security prison has appeared in court. Nathaniel Reece, 44, appeared at Cambridge Crown Court via prison video-link, where a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf after he left the room partway through proceedings. He is accused of the murder of John […]
15th November Three prisoners have denied murdering child killer Kyle Bevan, who was found dead in his cell at HMP Wakefield. Bevan, aged 33, was serving a minimum sentence of 28 years after being convicted of murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter, Lola James, in Haverfordwest in 2020. The defendants, Lee Newell, 56, and a second […]
A prisoner is due to appear in court charged with the murder of a fellow inmate who was serving a life sentence. Nathaniel Reece, who is accused of the murder of John Mansfield at HMP Whitemoor, near March, has been remanded to appear at a court hearing. John Mansfield, who was 63, was jailed for […]
13th November 2025 An inmate has pleaded not guilty to murdering former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins in Wakefield Prison. Samuel Dodsworth, 43, appeared by video link at Leeds Crown Court yesterday (Wednesday 12th November) for a hearing which also involved his co-accused, Rashid Gedel, 25, who was referred to as Rico Gedel during the proceedings. […]
The number of people dying in prison rose by 30 per cent over the last year, reaching a record high, damning new figures revealed today. Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data shows that 411 people in prison died in the 12 months to the end of September 2025 — the highest total for that period since […]
The former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins died from a stab wound to the neck, an inquest has heard. Watkins, 48, died after an alleged attack at HMP Wakefield, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sexual offences. On Friday, an inquest into Watkins’ death was opened and adjourned at Wakefield coroner’s court. […]
Two more men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder in connection with the death of singer Ian Watkins at HMP Wakefield. The former Lostprophets frontman, who was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offences, died after being attacked at the high-security jail on 11 October. West Yorkshire Police said the men, […]
Four prisoners at HMP Brinsford will spend an extra 10 years behind bars for attacking another inmate – with their ringleader also sentenced for attacks on prison officers. Brandon Addison, from Bilston, was sentenced alongside three other HMP Brinsford prisoners at Stafford Crown Court after they battered a new inmate at HMP Brinsford so severely […]
Two prisoners serving long sentences at HMP Long Lartin died from cancer, inquests have found. Inquests into the deaths of Paul Edmunds, 73, and Sebastian Szlaski, 41, at the category A prison, near Evesham, were completed by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman in May and published last month. Edmunds, of Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, had been sentenced […]