HC Deb 13 April 1988 vol 131 cc145-6W
Mr. Holland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the number of deaths(a) by suicide and (b) misadventure in Brixton prison since 1981.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Twenty verdicts of suicide and three of misadventure have been returned on inmates who have died at Brixton since the beginning of 1981. Three open verdicts have also been returned during that period on inmates who were found hanged at the prison, and the inquest on one inmate thought to have committed suicide there has yet to be held.