Trevor Ferguson tried to hide symptoms of the virus 'so they would not be responsible for lockdown of the whole unit'
A murderer who stabbed a mum-of-four to death as she tried to escape him died of Covid-19 in a Lancashire prison.
The HMP Garth inmate died aged 60 from Covid-19 pneumonia on December 9, 2020. The Category B prison in Ulnes Walton has "implemented a new policy" as a result, revealed the report, where staff conduct physical welfare checks on prisoners who fail to personally collect food, the M.E.N reports. There were concerns over his clinical management after he contracted Covid as no care plan was in place, no clinical observations were taken and, despite his medical vulnerability, there were no healthcare checks between him reporting symptoms and his admission to hospital, added the report.
A number of recommendations have been made, the report revealed. It said that due to Ferguson's "long-term health conditions" he had been identified as being at "high-risk" for Covid. He was also told by the prison governor of the risks and given advice but none of that information was in his records, together with no evidence of discussions about shielding.
"An entry in the wing observation book on 25 November, noted that there were prisoners on every spur who had not reported symptoms of Covid-19, for fear of a prison lockdown," added the report. "Previous entries also had brief references to peer pressure, aggression, agitation and threats to staff from several prisoners about the prospect of a lockdown."
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