A serial thief died just 10 days after being released from HMP Durham after failing to see his GP about a kidney infection.
Brian Douglas Kerr had been recalled to prison in March last year after breaching his licence conditions. Over the years, Kerr had twice served time behind bars for stealing purses from pensioners.
TeessideLive reports in 2014, Kerr was jailed for three-and-a-half years after he followed a 79-year-old woman and got into her Eaglescliffe home while she was not wearing her hearing aids. She discovered Kerr and he tried to claim he had brought back some keys she had left in a shop.
