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Originally Posted by downquark1
Why do they need an enquiry into the suicide? It's impossible to monitor 24 hours and as an 'expert' said, if someone it determined to take their life there's no stopping them.
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There is also the issue that it needs to be definitively demonstrated that this was indeed suicide. I was listening to a radio phone-in this morning where someone was expressing a similar sentiment (albeit in a somewhat more ranting tone). Basically they were saying that now he is dead let's be done with it and move on.
While I appreciate that all of the current signs do indeed suggest it was suicide, it is critical that the facts are established and the cause of death investigated. If, and it is a big if, he was killed by a prison officer, a failure to establish all the facts would essentially provide the prison service with a licence to "execute" any prisoner they felt like with impunity. Alternatively, a prison officer could have deliberately failed to act to prevent the suicide because they wanted him dead. Again, if this is the case we should establish those facts.