Source: bbc.com 2/3/26
A sex offender killed himself after being bullied and attacked by other inmates at a prison, a coroner has said.
Nigel Feckey was declared dead in his cell at HMP Fosse Way, in Glen Parva, Leicestershire, on 23 September 2024, after being repeatedly targeted by fellow prisoners who found out about his offending.
Assistant coroner Dianne Hocking, who oversaw Feckey’s inquest, which concluded on 23 January, said she was concerned sex offenders were not segregated from other prisoners at the jail at the time.
Hocking said Feckey was “primarily let down by the custodial system”, and warned more inmates could die unless the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) took action to keep vulnerable prisoners safe.
The MoJ said it would carefully consider the coroner’s findings, some of which were detailed in a prevention of future deaths report published on Monday.
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The report said that at the time, 700 of the 1,700 HMP Fosse Way inmates were sex offenders with the jail close to capacity.
The hearing was told the Category C jail opened in 2023 and was designed to be run on an “offence-neutral basis”, with all prisoners mixing freely on the wings and in communal areas.
Hocking said: “The high number of sex offenders, the offence neutrality of the prison and the inexperience of staff made it extremely difficult to control this.”
Feckey himself had been moved