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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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453 fatal incident reports

John Thirling

Published:
Date of death:
03/02/2024
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Malcolm Burwood

Published:
Date of death:
07/04/2024
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Damian Bugno-Swierz

Published:
Date of death:
08/11/2023
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

Scarlet Witch

Published:
Date of death:
01/09/2024
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

Kenneth Barnes

Published:
Date of death:
25/03/2024
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

Kevin Kane

Published:
Date of death:
29/01/2024
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

Leanne Lytollis

Published:
Date of death:
13/01/2024
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Post-release

Alfred Dosku

Published:
Date of death:
17/11/2023
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Immigration removal centre

Ronald Beamish

Published:
Date of death:
03/10/2023
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

Mehdi Ghorbani

Published:
Date of death:
11/05/2024
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison