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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Parents of man left to die in prison say care failures will haunt them for ever

Alex Braund’s father,Tim,second right,and his mother,Deborah, right,with their partners Eileen and Guy.
Alex Braund’s father,Tim,second right,and his mother,Deborah, right,with their partners Eileen and Guy. Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian

The parents of a 25-year-old man left to die in a cell by a negligent prison nurse given responsibility for 800 inmates have told how the conditions in which their son died will haunt them for ever.

The case – the 27th death in just five years at HMP Nottingham – was said to illustrate the desperate state of Britain’s understaffed and increasingly dangerous prison system.

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