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Death investigations & reports

This page contains details of death investigations that are currently in progress as well as final reports. The PPO is only able to publish final reports after sharing them with the family of the deceased person and after the coroner’s inquest has taken place. Please visit our archive site to view reports published before June 2024. You can also view investigations started before July 2024 too.

Use the search box below to find out where a death or deaths have happened. View a list of all prisons in England and Wales.

Please note, this is PPO data on fatal incident investigations which may not align with official statistics published by the Ministry of Justice.

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501 fatal incident reports

Paul David Horrocks

Published:
Date of death:
30/06/2019
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Other non-natural
Establishment type:
Prison

Neil Yates

Published:
Date of death:
25/04/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Other non-natural
Establishment type:
Post-release

Mark Ziemiecki

Published:
Date of death:
22/04/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

George Petrou

Published:
Date of death:
01/03/2021
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

Dean Briant

Published:
Date of death:
18/07/2020
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

Roy Whitehouse

Published:
Date of death:
21/10/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Jason Birch

Published:
Date of death:
26/09/2019
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

Neil Maddox

Published:
Date of death:
17/06/2024
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Carl Russell

Published:
Date of death:
07/10/2018
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Homicide
Establishment type:
Prison

Catherine Botwright

Published:
Date of death:
18/05/2024
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison