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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eleanor Barlow

Prison officers ‘left suicidal inmate in dark cell with makeshift noose’

PA Wire

Two prison officers failed to protect a suicidal inmate who was left on his own, in an unlit cell, with a makeshift noose, a court has been told.

Custodial manager Paul Fairhurst, 64, and senior prison officer, Rachel Jameson, 32, are charged with the gross negligence manslaughter of Anthony Paine, 35, who killed himself at HMP Liverpool on February 19 2018.

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