A man jailed for holding a student prisoner and brutally torturing him in a horror five hour robbery has died behind bars after taking drugs and downing home-brewed alcohol.
Lee Thomas was discovered unconscious in his cell at HMP Garth in Leyland, Lancashire, on February 2, 2019.
A report from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has since exposed a series of failings by prison staff after the offender was found, including an "unacceptable" 14 minute delay before emergency services were called.
