27/02/2025 18:35
The Guardian
Wife drove two hours to try to alert prison after attempting to raise alarm on phone line that did not workA woman who drove 60 miles to Wormwood Scrubs to prevent her husband from taking his own life in prison was unable to alert staff in time because the telephone line and the intercom were both broken, a coroner has ruled.Isaiah Adekunle Olugosi killed himself in his cell at HMP Wormwood Scrubs in March 2022. A jury found that his death was suicide. Olugosi’s wife spoke to her husband at about 9pm on 27 March and believed he was suicidal, according to a prevention of future deaths report by Richard Furniss, an assistant coroner for west London. Olugosi’s wife, Cambridgeshire police and the Metropolitan police were all unable to contact the men’s prison in west London by telephone to warn them because “calls were being diverted to an unmanned or obsolete number”.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counsellor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...
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