‘Missed opportunities’ to prevent woman’s death in prison cell fire, inquest finds

Jurors also found that an incorrect diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder had contributed to Clare Dupree’s incarceration. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/Athena/The Guardian

There were “missed opportunities” that could have prevented the death of a woman with severe mental illness from “sustained inhalation of smoke” after a fire in her prison cell, an inquest has found.

Clare Dupree, 48, from Cardiff, died after she used a vape to start a fire at HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire just after Christmas 2022.