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Prison staff to blame for hanging suicide of teen Jake Hardy at Hindley young offender institute in Wigan
Inquest into bullied special educational needs man's suicide by hanging finds prison staff to blame for 12 failures
An inquest blamed prison staff yesterday for failures that led to a teenager boy hanging himself.
Seventeen-year-old Jake Hardy hung himself in his cell at HMYOI Hindley in Wigan on January 20 2012 and died in hospital four days later.
A jury at Bolton coroner’s court found that a series of 12 individual failures by prison staff more than minimally contributed to his death.
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