Unattended blade in cell overnight
Ministry of Justice received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 21 Oct 2022 and 23 Jun 2023.
They came from 1 coroner in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
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“Despite this history and the known risk he was permitted under the prevailing rules at HMP Wakefield to be in possession when alone in his locked cell overnight.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Ministry of Justice responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“During the inquest, you heard evidence that following Mr [name redacted] death, the Governor ordered a review of the prison's local policy and confirmed that it sets out the action that must be taken when staff issue prison , which includes a risk assessment and staff ensuring they check that the blades are present when the razor is returned.”
Stated timescale: spring of 2023
- 8 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
“Mr [name redacted] had a history of self-harming [REDACTED]. Nonetheless, he was permitted [REDACTED] in his possession when alone in his cell.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:historypermittedpossessionalonecell
The most recent report. A response may not be due or published yet.
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2022 → 2023Stephen Beadman8 months after Carl Langdell · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports concern prisoners being allowed to keep a potentially harmful object (a blade or similar item) in their cells despite a known risk of self‑harm. The specific object and manner of harm differ slightly, but the core hazard is the same.
Carl Langdell · 21 Oct 2022
“Despite this history and the known risk he was permitted under the prevailing rules at HMP Wakefield to be in possession when alone in his locked cell overnight.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stephen Beadman · 23 Jun 2023
“Mr [name redacted] had a history of self-harming [REDACTED]. Nonetheless, he was permitted [REDACTED] in his possession when alone in his cell.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“During the inquest, you heard evidence that following Mr [name redacted] death, the Governor ordered a review of the prison's local policy and confirmed that it sets out the action that must be taken when staff issue prison , which includes a risk assessment and staff ensuring they check that the blades are present when the razor is returned.”
Stated action · timescale: spring of 2023
“During the inquest, you heard evidence that following Mr [name redacted] death, the Governor ordered a review of the prison's local policy and confirmed that it sets out the action that must be taken when staff issue prison , which includes a risk assessment and staff ensuring they check that the blades are present when the razor is returned.”
No published response from Ministry of Justice was found for this report. It is the most recent report, so a response may not be due or published yet.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Ministry of Justice at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 → 2023 | 0.70 | 0.36 | Closely related · 0.90 | same |
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