A prison watchdog has found that a Leicestershire prison “inappropriately restrained” a dying prisoner during hospital visits despite him being weeks from death. David Evans died of lung cancer at HMP Fosse Way, near Market Harborough, on Friday July, 26 last year. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) found that restraints were not proportionate to […]
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Before HM Assistant Coroner Bernard Richmond KC Inner West London Coroners Court 23 July – 6 August 2025 CONTENT WARNING: This article contains themes of self-harm and suicide Rajwinder entered HMP Wandsworth on 9 June 2023, at a time when it was governed by Katie Price, and before Charlie Taylor issued an urgent notification. Rajwinder […]
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Prison homicides and self-harm incidents has soared as overcrowding crisis deepens – with a prisoner self-harmong once every seven minutes in last 12 months, according to Ministry of Justice figures Seven prisoners were killed in the year to June 2025, compared to none the previous year. There are usually three or fewer homicides a year, […]
A prisoner in Kent who should have been checked every hour was found dead in his cell after staff failed to monitor him, a Prevention of Future Deaths report has found. Michael Pugh, 29, who was in HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey for wounding with intent, was left unattended between 07:22 BST and […]
A prisoner died just days after he arrived at HMP Liverpool. Stephen Smith was jailed for drug offences on March 20 2024 for five years and eight months. Following an assessment, a nurse raised no concerns with his health, with Smith having a history of asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) for which he […]
An inquest took place at Dorset Coroner’s Court, Bournemouth between July 14 and July 22. The inquest was in relation to a man, Sheldon Jeans, from Portsmouth who died on or about November 14, 2022 at HMP Guys Marsh, a category C men’s prison, near Shaftesbury, Dorset. The cause of his death was consumption of […]
A prison watchdog has said it was “difficult” to see how the care and management of an inmate who died by suicide could have been different. Stephen Hodgson, from Whitehaven in Cumbria, was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2020 for the attempted rape of a 17-year-old in Kendal. The 26-year-old died in his […]
The family of a woman who took her own life in a Scottish jail have backed an MP’s bill which would allow prisons to be prosecuted for the deaths of inmates. Labour MP Blair McDougall will present a ten minute rule bill, external to Westminster tomorrow (Wednesday 23rd) calling for Crown immunity in UK prison […]
Prison officers carried out “inappropriate and disproportionate” restraint on a prisoner moments before his death, an inquest jury has found. Azroy Dawes-Clarke, 28, from Romford, east London, was an inmate at HMP Elmley, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, when he died after suffering multiple cardiac arrests on November 10 2021. He had tied a […]
HMP Birmingham prisoner who hid drugs up his bum found dead in cell Gavin Wheale, who openly told police he’d hidden drugs to retrieve once he was behind bars, died on August 8, 2024 A prisoner who ‘concealed drugs in his anus’ was found dead in his cell within a day of arriving at HMP […]