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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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1480 fatal incident reports

Maqsood Asif

Published:
Date of birth:
15/09/1961
Date of death:
18/11/2021
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Michael Smith

Published:
Date of birth:
05/07/1959
Date of death:
10/07/2024
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Ashley Wood

Published:
Date of birth:
11/08/1995
Date of death:
09/09/2021
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

Terence Devereux

Published:
Date of birth:
14/06/1988
Date of death:
24/05/2020
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

Anthony Paine

Published:
Date of birth:
03/11/1982
Date of death:
19/02/2018
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

Michael Horton

Published:
Date of birth:
02/07/2004
Date of death:
07/05/2024
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

Gavin Banks

Published:
Date of birth:
23/04/1977
Date of death:
04/06/2025
Investigation status:
In progress
Establishment type:
Prison

Marcus Mayne

Published:
Date of birth:
03/10/1966
Date of death:
02/06/2025
Investigation status:
In progress
Establishment type:
Prison

John Armitage

Published:
Date of birth:
19/01/1980
Date of death:
10/05/2025
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Post-release

Richard Scaife

Published:
Date of birth:
30/05/1975
Date of death:
01/06/2025
Investigation status:
In progress
Establishment type:
Prison