IPP sentence: Desperate father who set himself alight while serving 13 years in jail for stealing a phone finally moving to hospital
While he was sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment to play a phone, a father who burns himself while mental health breaks down to the hospital after a six -year war by his family.
Thomas White, who was sentenced to an uncertain imprisonment by the United Nations as “psychological torture ,, developed paranoid schizophrenia and psychosis in prison because he lost the hope of getting rid of the prison sentence of Public Protection (IPP).
Last year, Independent After rejecting a hospital bed over and over again, this newspaper explained how he sets fire in his cell, as he supported his family to be transferred to the treatment of mental health.
In March, we explained how he was exposed to another mental health crisis, where he broke his face over and over again at the HMP Manchester base.
This week, someone’s 42 -year -old father learned that he would finally be discharged from prison to hospital care.
Tear sister Clara White Independent: “Thomas will now be sick, not a prisoner.”
Beyaz will be taken from the A category A, in which inspectors raised to the expert mid -secure Rothbury unit in Northgate Park in Northgate Park in Northgate Park in Northgate Park in Northumberland.
“Thomas was wounded about it, but I have me and my mother and my family, Ms Mrs. White said after watching for years that she worsened in the prison for years. “He deserves to be treated with honorable treatment, and I only impressed that he would go to a safe environment in which he was not hurt.”
After learning the news on Monday evening, he said that every member of the family poured tears.
“The hardest thing was to watch my brother die in front of me,” he added. “Every visit was only dying in front of me. He was increasingly weighing. Look at your eyes, you can just say the pain in it.”
The Movement comes after James Timpson, the Minister of Prisons, during a visit in March, HMP Manchester personally visited Beyaz at the hospital wing personally. Independent can reveal.
Following human rights concerns, criminals were sentenced to minimum imprisonment in 2012, but the maximum imprisonment was sentenced to the IPP sentences, but by leaving thousands of prisoners retrospectively. Stuck in prison For years beyond the original prison conditions.
Previously, White, who had convictions for theft, was sentenced to an IPP with a two -year tariff for robbery just four months before the ban on penalties. Then he was 27 years old, when he got a phone call from two Christian missionaries in Manchester.
Thanks to the term uncertain prison, mental health was imprisoned as it worsened. He carried the prisons 12 times and was banned from seeing his only 16 -year -old son Kayden, who was about 16 years old for most of his prison sentence.
Three psychiatrists wanted Beyaz to be moved to a hospital to treat his mental health. On February 13, he concluded that he was “struggling in the prison environment ve and was probably a deeply disappointed and angry as a result of his prediction”.
Last year, two medical reports warned that White created “unauthorized obstacles için for the healing of“ long imprisoned ”, and left the wage of the destructive IPP prison term.
White’s lawyer Dean Kingham argued that HMP Manchester was “inhuman” to hold a man in need of hospital treatment.
Discussing the case early this year, Independent: “The British Psychology Association recognized the psychological damage caused by the IPP sentence. Here, there is a potential articles in a place where the inspector in October 2024 has issued an emergency notification, in a place where it can easily access the community.”
According to the campaigns, at least 94 IPP prisoners took their own lives in prison.
Approximately 700 out of 2,614 people imprisoned in an IPP prison served at least 10 years longer than the original minimum period. However, consecutive governments He refused to re -punish IPP prisonersDespite the calls from the Justice Committee and the UN private torture rapporteur, after high suicide and self -harm.
