A father who has developed paranoid schizophrenia and psychosis in prison after serving almost 13 years for stealing a phone will not be transferred to a secure hospital, his devastated family has learnt.
Thomas White, who suffers from religious delusions and last year set himself alight in his cell, is languishing under an imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence. These indeterminate prison sentences were abolished more than a decade ago, but those already serving them were not released from the conditions they impose.
