Failings of prison staff and 'missed opportunities' have been found over the 'preventable' death of an inmate at HMP Nottingham who was murdered by his cellmate. Brett Lowe, 43, was strangled by shoe laces and stabbed with a piece of plastic cutlery while on remand at the Category B prison in Perry Road, Sherwood.
Nottingham Crown Court was told in 2020 that Mr Lowe, who was originally from Stapleford, had asked to be moved from his cell and told a prison officer that Ferencz-Rudolf Pusok had tried to strangle him as he slept. There were plans to move Mr Lowe from the cell later that day but he was killed shortly after being locked away with Pusok.
Mr Lowe was murdered on July 18, 2018, and two years later Pusok was ordered to serve a minimum term of 20 years before he can apply for parole after pleading guilty to his cellmate's murder. An inquest into the death of Mr Lowe, who was on remand on suspicion of burglary and robbery, found his death to be 'preventable'.
