A 61-year-old grandfather who was jailed following rioting outside a hotel housing asylum seekers was found dead in his cell hours after he received “adjudication papers” following a prison disciplinary charge, a coroner has said.
Peter Lynch died at HMP Moorland, in South Yorkshire, two months after he was jailed for two years and eight months by a judge who heard how he was at the front of a mob which gathered outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, shouting “scum” and “child killers” at police.
