HC Deb 28 July 1980 vol 989 cc500-6W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have committed suicide while serving prison sentences in English and Welsh prisons in each year since 1970; what were their names; what was the crime they had committed; at which prison they were imprisoned; how they committed suicide; how long their sentence was; and how much of their sentence they had served.

Mr. Brittan

The information requested is below, except for the prisoners' names. It is not my right hon. Friend's policy to publish the names of prisoners in these circumstances.

PERSONS WHO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE WHILE SERVING PRISON SENTENCES
Year Offence Establishment Method of suicide Length of sentence Sentence served
1970 Murder Albany Cut arm Life 8 years
1970 Burglary Pentonville Carbon monoxide poisoning (whilst on home leave) 4 years 31 months
1971 Attempted theft Exeter Cut arm 9 months 2 months
1971 Robbery Durham Hanging 3 years 4 weeks
1971 Burglary Leeds Hanging 3 years 3 months
1971 Larceny Pentonville Hanging 12 months 5 months
1971 Sexual Reading Hanging 7½ years 5 years
1971 Manslaughter Wormwood Scrubs Hanging 5 years 11 months
1971 Firearms Liverpool Hanging 5 years 2 days
1971 Burglary Dartmoor Hanging 4 years 3 years
1972 Murder Wandsworth Hanging Life 3 months
1972 Grievous bodily harm Winchester Hanging 4 years 8 months
1972 Assault Leeds Hanging 18 months 1 day
1972 Deception Wandsworth Hanging 15 months 1 week
1972 Drugs Wandsworth Hanging 18 months 2 weeks
1972 Burglary Leicester Hanging 18 months 9 months
1972 Rape Liverpool Hanging 8 years 1 month
1972 Theft Wormwood Scrubs Hanging 9 months 2 months
1972 Murder Wakefield Hanging Life N/K
1972 Deception Leeds Swallowed poison 4 years Nil

Year Offence Establishment Method of suicide Length of sentence Sentence served
£973 Burglary Bristol Shot himself (whilst on home leave) 4½ years 13 months
1973 Assault Hull Hanging 5 years 8 months
1973 Stolen goods Bristol Hanging 3 years 6 weeks
1973 Robbery Wakefield Hanging 14 years 3 years
1973 Burglary Wandsworth Hanging 2 years 6 months
1973 Wounding Liverpool Hanging 2 years 13 months
1973 Burglary Dartmoor Cut arm 6 years 3 years
1973 Drugs Wormwood Scrubs Dived from rool 9 months 4 months
1974 Grievous bodily harm Parkhurst Hanging 6 years 3½ years
1974 Assault with intent to rob Birmingham Hanging 6 years 1 month
1975 Firearms Lewes Cut throat 5 years 38 months
1975 Murder Liverpool Hanging Life 1 week
1975 Burglary Birmingham Hanging 4 years 10 days
1975 Burglary Chelmsford Hanging 4 years 13 months
1975 Theft Manchester Hanging 6 months 4 months
1975 Theft Low Newton ([...] Hanging 21 days 4 days
1976 Theft Swansea Hanging 2 years 9 months 13 months
1976 Burglary Liverpool Hanging 18 months 4 months
1976 Burglary Liverpool Hanging 4 years 8 months
1976 Drugs Manchester Hanging 12 months 4 months
1976 Theft Manchester Hanging 9 months 3 months
1976 Conspiracy to arson Wakefield Refusal of tood 10 years 2½ years
1976 Attempted murder Wormwood Scrubs Hanging Life 68 months
1976 Rape Brixton Hanging 5 years 18 months
1976 Forgery Camp Hill Carbon monoxide poisoning (whilst unlawfully at large) 3 years 26 months

Year Offence Establishment Method of suicide Length of sentence sentence served
1977 Murder Wormwood Scrubs Hanging Life 5 months
1977 Burglary Canterbury Hanging 18 months 4 months
1977 Non-payment of fines Shrewsbury Hanging 1 month 1 day
1977 Wounding Stafford Hanging 2 years 3 months
1977 Arson Wakefield Hanging 7 years 10 months
1977 Burglary Parkhurst Hanging 4 yeass 1 year
1977 Wounding Gartree Hanging 12 years 50 months
1978 Murder Leeds Hanging Life 11 years
1978 Grievous bodily harm Leeds Hanging 12 months 2 months
1978 Actual bodily harm Wandsworth Hanging 18 months 15 days
1978 Manslaughter Long Lartin Cut arms Life 7 years
1978 Murder Wormwood Scrubs Hanging Life 1 year
1978 Manslaughter Durham (F) Hanging 5 years 11 months
1978 Attempted murder Dartmoor Hanging Life 70 months
1979 Murder Gartree Hanging Life 21 months
1979 Arson Wormwood Scrubs Hanging Life 6 months
1979 Murder… Dartmoor Hanging Life 6½ years
1979 Avoiding paying fines Wandsworth Hanging 9 months 7 months
1979 Going equipped Wandsworth Hanging 18 months 2 months
1979 Arson Lincoln Hanging 3 years 4 months
1979 Arson Wormwood Scrubs Hanging 4 years 3 months
1979 Daoage, assault on P.C. Liverpool Hanging 6 months 2½ months
1979 Burglary Liverpool Hanging 5 years 3 months
1979 Indecent assault Pentonville Hanging 6 months 3½ months
1979 Damage, possessing of weapon Stafford Hanging 3 years 16 months
1979 Deception Shrewsbury Barbiturate overdose 12 months 1 day