A prison watchdog has said it was "difficult" to see how the care and management of an inmate who died by suicide could have been different. Stephen Hodgson, from Whitehaven in Cumbria, was sentenced ...

An investigation has been carried out into the death of a child rapist at Wymott Prison, near Leyland. Aged 75, George Rose ...

A probe has been launched at a Lancashire prison into the death of a prolific child rapist and sex offender held there.

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, which investigated the death, described him as "a difficult prisoner for staff to manage".

On January 18 in 2024, when Rose had failed to collect his evening meal, he was found unresponsive in his cell. Paramedics were called and confirmed he had died. An inquest held on 30 April 2025 ...

HMP Wymott, in Lancashire, where Adam fell ill and was rushed to hospital (Cavendish Press (Manchester) Ltd) The two girls came forward in 2017 to report what the paedophile had done to them.

The report noted that Hughes was the seventh prisoner to die at HMP Wymott since November 2021. Of the previous deaths, 13 were from natural causes and three were self-inflicted.

Myra McHugh, 82, a member of the Wymott Bowling Club – which will be demolished to make way for the prison’s entrance – said: “The main thing that really aggrieves me is that it's gone to ...

The new jail, which will sit alongside neighbouring jails HMP Garth and HMP Wymott, will mean a combined total of 3,700 prisoners will reside in the area, outnumbering the population of Ulnes Walton.

A legal bid to overturn the government's plan to build a village's third prison has failed. Residents in Ulnes Walton, near Leyland, already live near HMP Wymott and the high security jail HMP ...