Delays and neglect led to death of prisoner serving IPP sentence, jury finds Inquest concludes that Haydar Jefferies took his own life after prison’s ‘serious failure’ to put him in place of safety.
A prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence killed himself after delays to a parole hearing contributed to psychosis, and prison staff neglected to seek medical help as his condition deteriorated, an inquest jury has found.
Days before his death, Jefferies was found by staff at HMP Coldingley, Surrey, “flushing his head down the toilet, naked on all fours, and barking like a dog”, the jury was told.
Haydar Jefferies, a 50-year-old publican serving an imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence, died in March 2023 knowing that the allegations that had recalled him to prison had been dropped.
Over nine days, as Jefferies became “floridly psychotic”, staff on several occasions neglected to call the mental health team or seek medical help.
