A man's body is understood to have been found in a canal in Ashton-under-Lyne on Tuesday afternoon (June 20). Emergency services swarmed the Asda car park, beside the Ashton Canal, at around 4.30pm.
03.06.2023 - 06:55 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A convicted killer 'struggling to come to terms' with his life sentence was found hanged in his Strangeways cell alongside a note saying 'You can stick your 20 years up your a***', a report said. Carl Smythe, 46, was jailed for life after stabbing Damien Bendelow to death in a car park following a fight in a pub in Cornwall in January 2020.
He was transferred to Strangeways on February 10, 2021. But just 12 weeks later Smythe was found dead after taking his own life.
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Prison staff 'should have done more' to support Smythe, the prisons ombudsman said. A fatal incident report said while the physical and mental health care he received at HMP Manchester was 'of a good standard', there was 'no evidence staff had any meaningful contact with him' apart from one conversation on March 9.
His recently imposed life sentence was a 'significant risk factor', the report said, but because of the lack of contact staff 'were not in a position to identify that he was struggling'.
"We consider that more should have been done to support him," the report said. An assessment by a mental health nurse on February 27 noted that Smythe was 'becoming hopeless' and was struggling to come to terms with the length of his sentence.
On April 30 a friend called the prison's 'safer custody helpline' and left a voice message to express her concern about Smythe's safety. Around 40 minutes later a prison officer carried out a welfare check on the inmate.
A record of the check said there were 'no concerns at present but will monitor today'. The report found Smythe's death was 'not foreseeable'.
He had 'always denied having any suicidal thoughts and gave prison staff no reason to consider
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