An inquest is set to get underway into the death of a man who was murdered in his cell at HMP Nottingham. Brett Lowe, 43, was killed by his cell mate Ferencz-Rudolf Pusok on July 18, 2018, after being strangled by shoe laces and stabbed with a piece of plastic cutlery.
Pusok pleaded guilty to his cellmate's murder two years later in 2020 and was ordered to serve a minimum term of 20 years before he can apply for parole. Two years later an inquest into his death is set to begin, with a pre-inquest review taking place at the Council House in Nottingham on Monday, July 11.
Nottingham Crown Court was told in 2020 that Mr Lowe had asked to be moved from his cell and told a prison officer that Pusok had tried to strangle him as he slept. Mr Lowe had been remanded to the Sherwood jail in relation to allegations of burglary and robbery. Although a remand prisoner, rather than a serving prisoner, all prisoners go through the induction wing, the same wing where Pusok was housed.
