A teenager was warned by a crown court judge that he faces a likely prison sentence after a man was stabbed in the neck at a shopping precinct.
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A prisoner serving a five-year sentence who was found hanging in his cell on his 40th birthday died in hospital three days later, a report has revealed. A watchdog has criticised Buckley Hall Prison in Rochdale after launching an investigation into the death of Ryan Brennan.
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) said it found his care 'could have been managed better' and wasn't 'equivalent to that which he could have expected to receive in the community'. Some staff involved in events leading up to his death were suspended, all of whom have since returned to work bar one woman who was interviewed under caution by police, although officers took no further action. She has since left the prison service, the PPO report said.
Brennan was jailed in November 2021 after going on a knife rampage the morning after a birthday drink and drugs binge. A judge said it was only by sheer chance no-one was killed in the ordeal in Warrington.
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A court heard that after drinking and taking drugs the night before his birthday, Brennan rammed a Nissan Juke into the back of a Volkswagen Polo then threatened the driver with a knife in the early hours of August 20, 2021. He went on to threaten other motorists then took a BMW at knifepoint from a woman at a post office before crashing it into a fence, narrowly missing a dog walker.
In what police called a 'terrifying ordeal', Brennan pleaded guilty to a number of offences, including dangerous driving, threats to kill, affray, aggravated vehicle taking, driving without a licence or insurance.
He was moved to Buckley Hall on November 25, 2021. The PPO, in its published report, said Brennan had a history
A teenager was warned by a crown court judge that he faces a likely prison sentence after a man was stabbed in the neck at a shopping precinct.
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