Coroner: Rye Hill cell death ‘shameful’
Updated on 23 September 2009
A coroner condemns the treatment of Aleksey Baranovsky, who bled to death at the privately run Rye Hill Jail in June 2006.
"Shameful, appalling and unacceptable" - the words of a coroner today as he described the treatment of a foreign prisoner who bled to death over several hours in his Warwickshire prison cell.
An inquest jury listed a series of failures by prison and healthcare staff at the privately run Rye Hill jail which caused or contributed to the death of Aleksey Baranovsky in June 2006.
And an ombudsman's report obtained exclusively by Channel 4 News has questioned the fitness to practise of the then prison doctor and two senior nurses.
