‘He’s in the right place now’: Father jailed for 13 years for stealing phone is finally transferred to hospital
While he was sentenced to 13 years in prison to play a phone, a father who put herself desperate was finally transferred to the hospital.
Thomas White, who was sentenced to an indefinite imprisonment, defined by the United Nations as “psychological torture ,, developed paranoid schizophrenia and psychosis in prison because he lost the hope of getting rid of the people’s protection (IPP) sentence.
Last year, Independent This newspaper explained how he sets fire in his cell, as he supported his family in his six -year wars to be transferred to inpatient mental health treatment.
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 finally arrived in a specialist medium-security unit in Northumberland-three months after being approved for his family will finally get the help he needs.
His sister Reverend Clara White Independent: “Clara, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you, I would die in prison’ continues to say.”
The transfer comes after standing in a controversial open -ended imprisonment for 13 years. The IPP sentences were scrapped in 2012 after a damaging decision from the European Court of Human Rights, but not retrospectively, but left for years imprisonment for years beyond the original prison conditions of thousands of prisoners.
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.
Rev White, who was appointed as a priest this month, said he was still fighting to process the news that he was finally in the hospital after a fight against the Ministry of Justice.
Lord David Blunkett, who admitted to Tony Blair’s prison sentence when he was working at the Workers’ Cabinet, joined the efforts to help Beyaz to visit his son.
Meanwhile, Prison Minister James Timpson personally visited a prison category in which Rev White was aware of his bad situation.
“It was definitely a victory, but I don’t remember going from an institution to another institution, and it may take a long time to get it well,” he added.
“We were dragged from the column to the post. I feel a mental beating with Thomas.”
Although his brother is still struggling with religious delusions in the unit, he relieves the knowledge that he is “now in the right place”.
However, he is afraid that he will have to fight to keep him there for more than six months.
Approximately 700 out of about 2,500 people still imprisoned in IPP prison served at least 10 years longer than the original minimum periods.
After high suicide and self -harm rates, consecutive governments refused to re -punish IPP prisoners despite calls from the UN torture rapporteur.
The Ministry of Justice insists that the Conditional Evacuation Board will not intend to release prisoners who do not exceed the release test.
This week, Nazan’s Zaghari -ratcliffe, who was detained in Iran for almost six years, joined the government to take action to help those who focused on the sentence.
