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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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386 fatal incident reports

Claire Taylor

Published:
Date of death:
09/07/2022
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

Mesut Olgun

Published:
Date of death:
14/06/2018
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

John Foreman

Published:
Date of death:
20/12/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Jamie Andrews

Published:
Date of death:
04/12/2022
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Post-release

Stephen Sleaford

Published:
Date of death:
27/10/2022
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

Dean Holland

Published:
Date of death:
22/12/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Post-release

Simon Dunn

Published:
Date of death:
26/09/2024
Investigation status:
In progress
Establishment type:
Prison

John Stafford

Published:
Date of death:
25/09/2024
Investigation status:
In progress
Establishment type:
Prison

Harold Day

Published:
Date of death:
25/09/2024
Investigation status:
In progress
Establishment type:
Prison

Gerald Sherwin

Published:
Date of death:
25/09/2024
Investigation status:
In progress
Establishment type:
Prison