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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

Keiron Birks

Published:
Date of birth:
04/02/2000
Date of death:
29/03/2025
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

Ronald Carter

Published:
Date of birth:
11/07/1959
Date of death:
09/03/2025
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Post-release

Colin Waterfield

Published:
Date of birth:
30/03/1946
Date of death:
18/03/2025
Investigation status:
Pending inquest outcome
Establishment type:
Prison

Anthony Ferris

Published:
Date of birth:
17/08/1949
Date of death:
18/09/2024
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Lawrence Johnson

Published:
Date of birth:
05/04/1941
Date of death:
13/01/2024
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Anthony Matthews

Published:
Date of birth:
22/10/1964
Date of death:
13/06/2024
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Roy King

Published:
Date of birth:
29/12/1961
Date of death:
30/01/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison

Kenneth Barnes

Published:
Date of birth:
14/12/1938
Date of death:
25/03/2024
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Natural causes
Establishment type:
Prison

Stephen Rees

Published:
Date of birth:
25/06/1979
Date of death:
18/03/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Other non-natural
Establishment type:
Post-release

Damian Bugno-Swierz

Published:
Date of birth:
30/09/1994
Date of death:
07/11/2023
Investigation status:
Report published
Category of death:
Self-inflicted
Establishment type:
Prison