HL Deb 18 June 1986 vol 476 cc1022-4WA
Baroness Faithfull

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will give the following details concerning deaths of young people in penal custody: age of each individual, status (sentenced or on remand), name of the establishment, date of death,

Age Status Establishment Date of Death Circumstances Verdict
1980
19 Untried Brixton 20.1.80 Found with plastic bag over head Suicide.
20 Untried Ashford 31.3.80 Food refusal Self neglect, Misadventure.
18 Untried Norwich 22.4.80 Found drowned in bath Murder.
20 Sentenced Buckley Hall 14.5.80 Collapsed whilst playing basketball Accidental death.
19 Sentenced Swinfen Hall 26.12.80 Hanging Suicide.
1981
18 Untried Ashford 24.6.81 Acute necrotising myocarditis Natural causes.
18 Sentenced Medomsley* 9.9.81 Heart failure following coma Misadventure.
18 Sentenced Aylesbury 10.9.81 Set fire to bedding Misadventure.
16 Sentenced Rochester 30.12.81 Hanging Suicide.
1982
17 Sentenced Medomsley* 12.1.82 Acute asthma Natural causes.
18 Untried Canterbury 20.1.82 Hanging Suicide.
18 Untried Ashford 7.7.82 Hanging Suicide.
17 Untried Thorp Arch* 13.8.82 Cerebral haemorrhage Natural causes.
17 Convicted/Unsentenced Canterbury 9.9.82 Asthma Natural causes.
1982
19 Untried Stoke Heath 11.10.82 Hanging Suicide.
20 Untried Canterbury 21.10.82 Hanging Suicide.
20 Sentenced Lowsham Grange* 22.11.82 Brain damage No inquest.
18 Untried Lewes 23.11.82 Hanging Suicide.
17 Sentenced Usk* 7.12.82 Coma Natural causes.
1983
19 Untried Thorp Arch 3.2.83 Strangled himself Misadventure.
17 Sentenced Manchester 15.3.83 Hanging Suicide.
20 Untried Leeds 13.7.83 Hanging Suicide.
20 Sentenced Hull* 24.7.83 Cancer of liver Natural causes.
1984
18 Sentenced Manchester* 21.2.84 Cerebral haemorrhage Natural causes.
20 Untried Winchester 7.4.84 Hanging Suicide.
17 Untried Swansea 19.5.84 Hanging Suicide.
19 Sentenced Pentonville 20.6.84 Hanging Suicide.
19 Sentenced Stoke Heath 9.7.84 Asphyxia due to epileptic convulsion due to diabetic coma Natural causes.
19 Untried Swansea 9.10.84 Hanging Misadventure.
17 Sentenced Rochester 16.10.84 Inmate found stabbed Misadventure.
20 Sentenced Norwich 21.12.84 Broncho pneumonia; Hepatic failure; Hepatitis Natural causes.
1985
19 Sentenced Swansea 24.3.85 Hanging Open verdict.
18 Sentenced Huntercombe 13.4.85 Killed in motor accident whilst on day visit Verdict not known.
18 Sentenced Wellingborough 26.5.85 Inmate collapsed and died after running in sports day. Natural causes.
18 Sentenced Hollesley Bay 24.7.85 Asthmatic attack Natural causes.
20 Sentenced Portland 26.9.85 Hanging Suicide.
18 Untried Risley 12.10.85 Hanging Suicide.
1986
19 Untried Exeter 3.1.86 Hanging Not yet known.
19 Untried Ashford 20.3.86 Hanging Not yet known.
*Died in or en route to outside hospital.

circumstances of death and inquest verdict in respect of each prisoner of 20 years of age or less who has died in a penal institution since January 1980.

Lord Glenarthur

The readily available information is as follows.

The length of sentence is not recorded.