§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will ask the chief inspector of prisons to carry out a full inquiry into the recent spate of suicides and deaths in suspicious circumstances in Brixton prison.
§ Mr. MellorI refer the hon. Member to my reply to a question from my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton (Mr. Lawrence) on 1 February 1990.
385WAll deaths in prison custody are the subject of a coroner's inquest and any death in suspicious circumstances would be a matter for the police to investigate.