His death was found to have been 'preventable'
Failings of prison staff and 'missed opportunities' have been found over the 'preventable' death of an inmate at HMP Nottingham who was murdered by his cellmate. Brett Lowe, 43, was strangled by shoe laces and stabbed with a piece of plastic cutlery while on remand at the Category B prison in Perry Road, Sherwood.
Mr Lowe was murdered on July 18, 2018, and two years later Pusok was ordered to serve a minimum term of 20 years before he can apply for parole after pleading guilty to his cellmate's murder. An inquest into the death of Mr Lowe, who was on remand on suspicion of burglary and robbery, found his death to be 'preventable'.Laurinda Bower, deputy coroner for Nottinghamshire, found prison staff "consistently failed to execute their responsibilities".
When Mr Lowe activated the cell bell at 3.31am, he reported that his cell mate had tried to throttle him. The inquest was told all of the subsequent opportunities to report this, other than verbally, were not taken by any prison staff. No immediate action was taken, including separating the prisoners for their own safety. No record was formally made of the incident, and no reference to the incident was included in the handover to the prison's early shift staff, the inquest also found.
At the prison office, Mr Lowe again alerted staff to the incident and requested a cell move. No further investigation of the incident took place and nothing was recorded to acknowledge what happened, its severity and the associated heightened risk.
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