Prisoner Dies After Being Beaten To Death

A child prisoner has died after claims he was ‘beaten to a pulp’ at a young offenders’ institution.

The 16-year-old boy was said to have been found unresponsive in his cell at Feltham Young Offenders’ Institute, in south-west London, on Monday.

Prison staff called for an ambulance, and the teenager was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead two hours later.

His girlfriend, who asked not to be named, said the teenager suffered from a heart condition but did not believe this was the cause of his death.

And when she was asked to examine the body, she said he appeared to have suffered severe injuries.

Last night, a Scotland Yard spokesman said the death was being treated as ‘unexpected’.

They said: ‘On Tuesday, April 21, at 12.05 am, police were notified by staff at Feltham Prison and Young Offender Institute about the death of a boy who had been found unresponsive and later died in hospital.

‘The London Ambulance Service were called at around 9.30 pm on Monday, April 20 and treated the boy, aged 16, before taking him to hospital. He sadly died at 11.43 pm.

‘At this stage, the death is being treated as unexpected, and enquiries remain ongoing. A post-mortem examination will take place in due course.’

The young man’s girlfriend said she had identified his body at West Middlesex Hospital.

‘His body had been beaten to a pulp, he was covered in scuff marks and bruises,’ she told the Daily Mail.

‘We had to look at him through a glass window; we weren’t allowed to say goodbye properly.

‘We are so confused. We don’t know how he died. He did have a heart condition, but it is one that is very rare to die from.

‘His mother is completely broken. She was originally told he had died in the prison, but then later that it was in hospital, so we just don’t know what happened.

‘He had been in trouble, but he was 16, a child, and should have been protected. He had his whole life ahead of him and planned to go back to college, but now he can’t.

‘It is a complete disgrace that this happened.’

A prison source said that if the boy had been injured, he should have been subjected to regular checks every 15 minutes from staff.

‘Heads may roll for this,’ they said. The revelations at the coroner’s court might actually shut Feltham down once and for all.’

Sadly, this teenager was attacked in a young offenders’ prison. A teenager is all that he was. He was not a child, but he wasn’t an adult either.

A child becomes a teenager at 13, and an adult at 20, but the strongest point here is that this site is still operating, and it shouldn’t; it should be shut down.

It was said that the lad’s death was ‘unexpected.’ Well, I would imagine it was unexpected. We don’t expect people to be battered to death in a secure facility, and it wasn’t just ‘unexpected,’ it was murder, and where were all the guards when this was happening? Perhaps they were on a tea break?

Some people are going to question why the lad was in prison – well, it doesn’t actually matter now, he’s dead.

I mean, what could conceivably go wrong in a prison with a load of hormonal lads, who are clearly in there for one reason or another, but whatever the reason, they undoubtedly need support and rehabilitation, not be battered to death, defeats the object, really, don’t you think? Yes, let’s all beat our dysfunctional teenagers to death, one less to worry about! Makes you wonder where our mindset actually is on all of this.