A prisoner who attacked a woman died in hospital amid delays in an application for compassionate leave.
Owen Maughan was jailed in 2020 after he battered a woman in Blackburn with a metal pole, LancsLive reports. Within months of his 18 month sentence, he became seriously ill.
Maughan, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer, was moved from HMP Lancaster Farms to HMP Preston so he could receive 24-hour health care. He was then treated between the prison and the Royal Preston Hospital, where he died without his family able to be by his side.
