A prison helped pay for the funeral of a convicted paedophile who died two years after he was jailed for molesting three girls he had plied with alcohol, it has emerged.
Gerald Coppel, described as 'dangerous' by police, was jailed in March 2020 but his health deteriorated while incarcerated at Forest Bank prison Salford and he died at Salford Royal Hospital on February 4, 2022. He was 73.
Now a report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, which criticised the record-keeping of the medics who cared for him behind bars, has revealed the prison helped pay for the funeral, which took place three weeks after his death.
