A prisoner who took his own life in his cell had not been placed on 'suicide watch', an inquest heard.
Ian Galtress, 47, was found dead at HMP Liverpool on October 14, 2018. An inquest into his death opened at Gerard Majella Courthouse in Liverpool on Monday (April 25).
The inquest heard that Galtress, from Birkenhead, who was remanded to the Walton prison on June 19, 2018 on the charge of robbery, had barricaded himself into his single occupancy cell after refusing to leave for 'association'. At 10.33am, another prisoner saw him in the cell and informed prison officers.
