Giuseppe Tabone and Andrew Evans
12 Mar 2024 · Coroner Michael Spencer · East Sussex
The coroner's concerns
1. failure to carry out required roll checks
“At the inquest, two prison staff admitted that they had independently failed to carry out the required roll checks on L wing at 7.30pm and 8.45pm on the evening of 27 June 2022. One officer recorded on the wing log book that he had carried out the 7.30pm check, even though he did not do so. The other gave evidence that he did not carry out the 8.45pm check because he was distracted by the day shift officers, who were watching videos in the control room and were not responding to prisoner's cell”