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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jonathan Humphries

Dying mum's torment over son stabbed to death in violence plagued prison

The sister of a young dad stabbed to death while in prison says she can "never forgive" his killer or the former bosses of violence plagued HMP Altcourse.

Dad-of-two Darren Ashcroft, from Norris Green, stepped in to stop "lethal threat" fellow inmate Keir Michael attacking his cellmate but ended up being stabbed in the chest with a makeshift 'shank' on November 14, 2014.

The 35-year-old died a week from his release and two weeks before his mum, Vera Ashcroft, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and left to face her final days without her son.

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