A father who kept himself as his mental health To steal the phone Finally, his family is being transferred to the hospital after a six -year fight.
Thomas White, who is dull under an eliminated indefinite gel period described by the United Nations, developed paranoid schizophrenia and psychosis in the prison as he lost hopes to be free from himself Imprisonment for public safety (IPP) sentence.
Last year, Independent It turned out how he was Set yourself on fire In its cell, this newspaper supported his family’s call, so that it could be transferred for mental health treatment, as he was repeatedly denied the hospital bed.
In March, we revealed how he was still suffering Another mental health crisis, Who saw him breaking his face on the floor of HMP Manchester repeatedly, where he was being held.
This week, the 42 -year -old father of one learned that he would finally be discharged from jail under the care of the hospital.
His tearful sister Clara White told Independent: “Thomas will now be a patient and not a prisoner.”
White will be transferred from Category A Gel, where last year inspectors raised an alarm on the use of broad drugs, rising violence, poor conditions and a string of self-affected deaths, for the medium safe Rothbury unit, expert at Northgate Park in Northerland, Northern.
“Thomas has a casualties in this, but I and my mother and family have,” he said, after years, saw him deteriorating inside the jail.
“She is eligible to treat with dignity, and I am just overwhelmed that she will go to a safe environment where she is not hurt.”
He said that every member of the family shed tears of happiness after learning the news on Monday evening.
He said, “The most difficult task was watching my brother dying in front of me.” “Every journey, he was just dying in front of me; he was less and less weight. Look at his eyes, you could just tell the pain that he was.”
This step during a visit in March, Jails Minister James Timson personally visited a white on HMP Manchester’s hospital wing, Independent Can reveal.
IPP sentence – under which criminals were given a minimum jail duration, but maximum was not maximum – amidst the concerns of human rights in 2012, but not the retrospective, except thousands of prisoners, not rebel. Got in jail For years, beyond the terms of his original prison.
White, who had the previous guilty for the theft, was sentenced to IPP with a two -year tariff for robbery just four months before the sentence. Then at the age of 27, he was a biping of a procurement of taking a phone from two Christian missionaries in Manchester.
But thanks to the indefinite gel period, he has been disorganized because his mental health has deteriorated. He moved to jails 12 times and was banned by looking at his only son, Kayden for around 16, for most of his prison period.
Three psychiatrists had called for the White to be taken to a hospital to treat their mental health conditions. On February 13, the latest concluded that he was “struggling in the atmosphere of the prison” and it is likely that “he is deeply disappointed and angry as a result of his prediction”.
Last year, two medical reports bare the toll for the devastating IPP jail, which warned that the “long dislocation of the White was creating” impervious obstacles “for their recovery.
The Dean Kingm, White Advocate, argued that it was “inhuman” to keep a person who needed a hospital treatment inside HMP Manchester.
Earlier this year, discussing the matter of White, he told Independent: “The British Psychological Society has recognized the psychological loss caused by the IPP sentence.
“Here we have a person whose situation has deteriorated day by day, year -year -old, is being held in a jail, where the inspector has issued an immediate notification in October 2024. Somewhere, he can use medicines more easily than the community.
“For me, here we have a possible Article 3 violation of their human rights.”
According to campaigners, at least 94 IPP prisoners have taken their lives in jail, as they lose hope of being free.
Of the 2,614 people, an IPP is still apprised of the period of jail, around 700 has served at least 10 years longer than its original minimum word.
However, there are gradual governments IPP prisoners again refused a sentenceDespite calls from the Justice Committee and United Nations on torture between suicide and high rates of suicide.
