Case Type - Detention and restraint

The inquest into the self-inflicted death of Emily Hartley has concluded with the jury finding a lack of professionalism at HMP New Hall, including in the implementation of suicide and self-harm procedures (ACCT), contributed to the 21 year old’s death on 23 April 2016.

Case Type - Miscarriages

Relatives of a woman who killed herself and her disabled daughter after repeated harassment have settled a claim against Leicestershire Police. An action brought by Fiona Pilkington's mother and Francecca Hardwick's brother, himself a vulnerable adult, has been settled by a five-figure sum.

Case Type - Detention and restraint

Kelly Louise Hutchinson was the first woman's prison death in 2006. Her death was the eleventh death at New Hall Prison since 2002. A demonstration was called by Pauline Campbell, mother of Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, 18, who died in the so-called care of HMP & YOI Styal, Cheshire, in January 2003.

Case Type - Mental health custody deaths

A review published by the Warrington Safeguarding Adults Board has concluded that the self-inflicted death of Laura Davis was facilitated by staff at the inpatient mental health facility, Arbury Court. Laura was 22 years old when she was found unresponsive on her bed on 20 February 2017.

Case Type - Detention and restraint

The grim pattern to Louise Giles's short life was set at the age of 13 when she took her first overdose. She tried to kill herself throughout her teens. Three months after being sent to Durham prison, she was found dead in her cell with a ligature around her neck. She was just 20.

Case Type - Mental health custody deaths

Rebecca Overy was just 18 when she was found collapsed with a ligature around her neck on 23 June 2013 in Annesley House, a privately-run adult secure hospital in Nottinghamshire. Rebecca had a history of mental health problems and self-harm, and had been receiving treatment in hospital since the age of 13.

Case Type - Police and neglect

An investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) into the death of a "vulnerable" man in a police cell has found "staff failed" to protect him. Andrew David Sheppard, 22, was found dead at Newport Central police station on 30 September 2006.

Case Type - Police and restraint

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will investigate how a man died after being transferred from a police station to a court. Billy Salton died on 9 July, three days after collapsing at Stockport Magistrates Court, Greater Manchester.

Case Type - Detention and asylum

A young asylum seeker was been found dead at a Victorian jail that was still being run as a prison despite only housing people seeking refuge in Britain. Bruno Dos Santos, who was in his 20s, was discovered in his cell at HMP The Verne.

Case Type - Police and neglect

A Birmingham man drowned after reportedly leaping into the river Avon as he was followed by police. Cameron Whelan, 26, was enjoying a night out in Stratford-upon-Avon when the tragedy occurred.

Case Type - Mental health custody deaths

Why did Connor Sparrowhawk die in a specialist NHS unit? A report found  that 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk's death at Slade House assessment and treatment unit was avoidable – reigniting criticism of care for people with learning disabilities.

Case Type - Police and neglect

Ellis Downes's dad branded misconduct meetings a mere 'slap on the wrist', after an IPCC investigation. Three Thames Valley Police officers faced misconduct meetings over their handling of Ellis Downes's death, after a watchdog deemed their treatment of his distressed family 'incivil'.

Case Type - Police shootings

Police marksmen were accused of tasering a man as he lay grievously wounded in the street after they had shot him four times with live bullets. Witnesses claim they heard one of the 50,000 volt stun guns being discharged after George Asare, 25, collapsed in a pool of blood.

Case Type - Capital punishment

Gwynne Owen Evans was one of the last two men hanged in Britain. Medical reports released in 2017 showed that Gwynne, who was hanged in 1964 at the age of 24, had serious psychological problems. But his defence team made no attempt to enter a plea of diminished responsibility - a plea that, if accepted would have saved his life.

Case Type - Detention and neglect

In 1991, a 15-year-old boy from Great Yarmouth was sent to Feltham Prison in West London, about 200 miles from his home, for 188 days. Social services denied him permission to go to the funeral of his grandmother. Shortly afterwards, he was found dead, hanged from his barred window. He had been sent to there for setting fire to a shed.

Case Type - Police shooting

The distraught mother of a man who died after being tasered by police told of how her trust in them had been ‘devastated’ after jurors concluded using the weapon was ‘not reasonable’ - and that the officers’ failings  had contributed to his death.

Case Type - Detention and restraint

A teenage prisoner killed himself after he was transferred to a new institution, where staff failed to recognise his history of self-harm as a risk factor, an inquest jury has ruled. Josh Collinson, 18, was found hanged at Swinfen Hall young offender institution in Staffordshire on 3 September 2015.

Case Type - Mental health and police restraint

The family of a vulnerable mixed-race man who died after being restrained by police officers say they have “no faith” in an investigation into his death. Kaine Fletcher, 26, died on July 3 after Nottinghamshire Police officers were called to his home while he was experiencing a mental health crisis.

Case Type - Detention and restraint

A teenager from Shrewsbury who was found hanged in his cell at Shropshire's young offenders institution had been identified as being at risk of self-harm, an inquest has heard. Nicholas Saunders, 18, was serving a sentence at Stoke Heath, near Market Drayton, when he died on 2 April 2011.

Case Type - Mental health custody deaths

An inquest heard that lessons should be learned after a patient was found dead in the grounds of a Bradford psychiatric hospital one week after he went missing on an unsupervised cigarette break.

Case Type - Police and restraint

A Family asked why warnings that 19-year-old had swallowed drugs packets went unheeded. An inquest into his death heard how he told his arresting officers, in Nottingham, that he had "swallowed some coke," had just returned from Costa Rica and that he was "going to die".

Case Type - Detention and restraint

A jury has found a string of failures contributed to the death of 17 year old Ryan Clark on 18 April 2011 at HMYOI Wetherby. A damning conclusion highlighted the failure to extract from available documents details of his vulnerabilities and susceptibilities; and that that not all support that could have been available to Ryan was offered.

Case Type - Detention and mental health

A young offender institution has "lessons to learn" after a man with a history of mental health problems killed himself, a report has said. An inquest jury found on Thursday that Steven Davison, 21, took his life at YOI Glen Parva, Leicestershire, while the balance of his mind was disturbed.

Case Type - Detention and restraint

An inquest on an inmate at Styal prison, where six women died in the space of 12 months, has concluded that the jail was, "inadequate" at assessing her needs, and the drug detoxification programme she was placed on was "inappropriate and insufficient to her needs".

Case Type - Detention and restraint

A woman who was serving an eight-week prison sentence for shoplifting was found dead in her cell. Anna Graven, 41, was found at Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire. Paramedics tried to revive her but she was pronounced dead a short time later.

Case Type - Detention and asylum

On 30 March 2014, Christine Case a 40-year-old Jamaican woman died at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre near Bedford. According to reports in the press she was heard calling for help and had complained of chest pains shortly before suffering a heart attack. The emergency services were called around but she was pronounced dead at  the centre at 8.47am.

Case Type - Police and neglect

Claire Harper, 41, was detained by West Yorkshire Police in the early hours of 7 January 2018 and taken to Trafalgar House in Bradford. She was later found “unconscious and unresponsive” in her police cell and despite being rushed to hospital, doctors were unable to revive her.

Case Type - Miscarriages

Tragic deaths such as that of Fiona Pilkington, who killed herself and her daughter after being targeted by yobs, could happen again, inspectors have warned, as police officers are too embarrassed to ask victims about their disabilities.

Case Type - Detention and neglect

A senior MP has backed campaigners' calls for an urgent independent inquiry after a woman inmate died and four were hospitalised after a suspected drugs overdose at Styal Prison. Sir Nicholas Winterton, MP for Macclesfield, said the latest death - one of four at the prison this year - was a matter of grave concern.

Case Type - Police and neglect

A detention officer lied about checking on a woman in a cell who later died, a police watchdog has found. Sharmila Ullah, 30, died in hospital in 2014 after she was held at Bloxwich police station in the West Midlands.

Case Type - Neglect and miscarraige

The inquest into the death of Sharon Kelly concluded inding that failings by East of England Ambulance Service and Essex Police contributed to her death. The jury concluded that the timing of the Mental Health Act assessment was inadequate, and the ambulance service failed to initiate a risk assessment when arriving at the scene.

Case Type - Police and neglect

Sharon McLaughlin died alone in a police cell. She was 32, covered in vomit and almost certainly suffering from heroin withdrawal after spending nearly 24 hours in custody for allegedly shoplifting to feed her habit.

Case Type - Police shootings

A man who died after being tasered by police by a 50,000-volt stun gun was not breaking into the property as thought but visiting friends for a quiet birthday drink, a friend has claimed. Adrian Thompson became unresponsive after being bundled into a police car and taken into custody in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, having been stunned.

Case Type - Police and restraint

Five cops could face criminal charges - including assault and misconduct in public office - over the death of dad-of-four Andre Moura, who was found 'unresponsive' in the back of a police van. The 30-year-old died in Tameside hospital in the early hours of Saturday, 7 July 2018.

Case Type - Police shootings

A man has died after suffering horrific burns in an incident when he was tasered by a police officer while doused in a flammable liquid. Police were called to the home of 32-year-old Andrew Pimlott in Plymouth following a domestic disturbance and told that he was in the garden and had a can of flammable liquid with him.

Case Type - Police shootings

Colin Berry, father of three young children, died after unarmed police arrived at his Clayton home to carry out a search for drugs on Thursday lunchtime. It is thought there was a struggle, during which a firearm went off and killed Mr Berry.

Case Type - Police and neglect

A wheelchair-bound man froze to death metres from own home 'hours after being left by police'. Craig Buckby, 31, told a police officer who came to his aid that he was "fine" and he would keep going around in a circle until she left.

Case Type - Detention and neglect

A homeless man found dead in his prison cell should never have been locked up, a charity has said. Darren Thomas, 45, was found dead in Cardiff Prison on Thursday, 6 March 2014.

Case Type - Police and restraint

Distressing footage shows three police officers pinning suspect to pavement before he died. Bedfordshire Police officers can be heard shouting "spit it out" as they restrained the man, named locally as Karl Brunner, on the ground.

Case Type - Police and restraint

A police watchdog has cleared officers of any wrongdoing after a driver they were following died in a crash as he raced to see his stabbed brother in hospital. Kevin Burris, 29, was killed in the tragedy in 2010 and was found by his own mother, who had been at the bedside of his critically-injured sibling Karl.

Case Type - Police and restraint

The family of a grandfather who died in police custody today spoke of their relief at the truth finally emerging at an inquest into his death – that he had died while being transported in a police van.

Case Type - Police and restraint

Grieving mother demands answers about son's death in custody. Mark, 29, died at Dundee Police headquarters on March 5, 2016, after being picked up, apparently for riding his motorbike erratically.

Case Type - Detention and neglact

An investigation has been launched into the death of a father-of-three whose body was found in a cell at Birmingham Prison. Marlon McIntosh, from Quinton, was serving a nine-week sentence for theft when he was discovered dead.

Case Type - Police and neglact

Two members of police staff faced misconduct charges after a South Tyneside dad died just hours after he was taken into police custody. An inquest found that a raft of police failings contributed to the death of 34-year-old Martin Leck on Friday, 22 March 2013.

Case Type - Police and neglact

Neil Budziszewski, 42, died in custody after he was found unconscious in a Sheffield police cell. He was found by custody staff at Ecclesfield police station. Paramedics were called to provide first aid but he was pronounced dead an hour later, police said.

Case Type - Police and neglact

Care for a man who collapsed in police custody and died was below the standard expected, an investigation has found. It said Sean Walsh, 42, was taken in 2008 to the Warwickshire Justice Centre in Nuneaton and assessed as being unfit for questioning as he was intoxicated.

Case Type - Miscarraige

The family of a murdered Chinese man have received a public apology after the police admitted that officers had failed to treat an attack by a gang of youths as a racist murder. Lothian and Borders police said there were a series of "significant" and unacceptable flaws in its investigation into the killing of Simon San, a 40-year-old takeaway worker.

Case Type - Police and mental health

A man who was detained under the Mental Health Act died in hospital after his condition deteriorated at a police station. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating Surrey police following the death of 33-year-old Terry Smith.

Case Type - Police and mental health

The family of a man who died in custody has criticised the police watchdog for failing to recommend the suspension of officers being investigated over the circumstances of his death. William Cameron died at Loddon Valley police station, near Reading in Berkshire, on 8 January 2020.