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Death investigations & reports

Warning: Reports may contain extremely graphic information which readers may find distressing.

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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1493 fatal incident reports

William Roalfe

Published:
Date of death:
20/11/2021
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Philip Warne

Published:
Date of death:
24/03/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Leon Cadman

Published:
Date of death:
12/07/2022
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Simon Parkinson

Published:
Date of death:
07/07/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Dale Samm

Published:
Date of death:
25/09/2022
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

Jack Edwards

Published:
Date of death:
08/12/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Homicide
Establishment type:
Approved premises

David Pates

Published:
Date of death:
28/03/2024
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Neil McKenna

Published:
Date of death:
19/07/2022
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Taras Nykolyn

Published:
Date of death:
05/06/2018
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Homicide
Establishment type:
Prison

Craig Goddard

Published:
Date of death:
08/12/2019
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Approved premises