Concerns have been raised about a prison’s ability to deal with drugs after the death of an inmate from a psychoactive substance. Derrion Adams died on 31 October 2024 and a coroner who looked into his death found HMP Birmingham was not able to prevent criminals from delivering dangerous drugs. Coroner Emma Brown also reported […]
A man died hours after being restrained by prison officers on his first night in custody, an inquest has heard. Josh Tarrant, 34, arrived at HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, on 31 October. He suffered a cardiac arrest and died in the early hours of 1 November. On Thursday, jurors at Kent […]
Two prison workers were suspended over failings relating to checks on an inmate who was later found dead, an inquest has heard. Ricky Crosher died on the morning of 11 October 2023 at HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire. The 40-year-old, who was originally from Basildon in Essex, was under twice-hourly checks after self-harming four days […]
A former prison nurse jailed for helping run £1million smuggling scheme after falling for inmate has told her story. Amy Hatfield, a mental health support worker at HMP Lindholme in Doncaster, helped smuggle up to £1 million worth of contraband into the Category C prison after she was wooed by inmate Joseph Whittingham, 36. The […]
Drones smuggling drugs into prison will be investigated in an inquest into a man who died in custody. The full inquest, which opens in November, will also look at his care and supervision. Oliver Mulangala, 40, was found dead at HMP High Down, Sutton in July 2024. A pre-inquest review was held at Woking ’s Coroner’s Court […]
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 […]
A former prison officer has admitted failing to carry out a check on an inmate who was later found dead in his cell because he was under “extreme pressure” at the time and his wife had just asked him for a divorce. Aaron Taylor, from Preston, was found dead in his cell at HMP Garth, […]
A 62-year-old woman took her own life just five days after she was released from Styal prison. A report into Angela Thompson’s death has now concluded the ‘clinical care’ she received at the women-only prison in Wilmslow was ‘poor’. Ms Thompson was said to have a ‘long and extensive contact with community mental health services’. […]
A coroner has called for a prison to be able to monitor unusual phone activity after an inmate tried to reach his partner 61 times in the hours before he took his own life. Martin Collins, 66, was found hanged in his cell at HMP Highpoint, near Haverhill, Suffolk, on 25 November 2023. An inquest […]
A Parc Prison inmate died aged 29 after measures to stop drugs entering the prison in Bridgend were “inadequate”, an inquest has found. Ross Andrew Appleby, 29, died on 18 January 2023 at the G4S-run facility. He had been remanded at the prison in October 2022 and was sentenced to a three-year jail term for […]
The Scottish Prison Service has admitted that the death of a man in custody was unlawful – 10 years on from the incident. Allan Marshall, 30, was on remand at HMP Edinburgh in March 2015 when he was restrained face down by 17 prison officers. He died four days later. His family has now received […]
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 […]