AN inquest has heard how a prisoner serving life at a Lancashire jail died after going on hunger strike.
Roy Waterson, 58, was jailed for rape and attempted murder. The court heard he suffered a blood clot but the underlying cause was dehydration from a lack of food.
At the inquest in Preston a jury returned a verdict that Mr Waterson died from natural causes, aggravated by deliberate self-neglect.
A prisoner at Garth, Leyland, he died at Chorley hospital on January 17, having been taken there two days earlier. Dr Killathur Sekhar, senior medical officer at Garth, said Mr Waterson had been in prison for almost 13 years and believed he would never get out.
He had been on a normal wing, but following a threat from other prisoners over the nature of his convictions, was moved to a segregation unit for his own protection. He then started to refuse food.
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