- Thomas White, 43, is being returned to a category B prison indefinitely after spending just nine months in a secure hospital , despite his family's six-year fight for his transfer for mental health treatment.
- White was handed a controversial Imprisonment for Public Protection ( IPP ) sentence 14 years ago for a mobile phone robbery, with a minimum tariff of two years, but has remained incarcerated for over 14 years.
- His sister, Pastor Clara White, fears his mental health will rapidly deteriorate back in prison without a release date, highlighting his history of self-harm and mental health crises, which the UN has described as 'psychological torture'.
- The United Nations recently warned that Britain is perpetrating 'serious human rights violations' by failing to resentence nearly 2,400 individuals still trapped on IPP sentences, which were scrapped in 2012 but not retrospectively.
- Pastor White has urged the new government and Justice Secretary Alex Norris to prioritise addressing the 'huge injustice' of the IPP scandal, which has contributed to the deaths of almost 100 IPP prisoners.
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My brother stole a mobile phone - 14 years on he’s facing prison again with no release date
