Rajwinder Singh, 36, died by suicide 11 days after arriving at HMP Wandsworth in June 2023. Staff repeatedly missed opportunities to intervene, falsified records, ignored his call bell and did not check on him when his wife phoned with welfare concerns the day he died. His suicide risk was not properly assessed on arrival despite notes of a recent attempt, and he was extremely poorly managed under ACCT from 12 June. The prison's delivery of suicide and self-harm protocols was little more than shambolic. Suicide and self-harm prevention procedures will be updated to improve identification of prisoners at risk.
A damning investigation found staff repeatedly missed opportunities to help Rajwinder Singh, 36, who took his own life 11 days after arriving at the south-west London prison in June 2023. The prison falsified records, ignored his call bell and did not check on him when his wife phoned with concerns for his welfare the day he died. A Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report said the prison "made critical and repeated failings in their duty of care to Mr Singh".
The failures in this case were voluminous and diverse. There were multiple opportunities for meaningful interventions within Mr Singh's care that would have led to a different outcome, that were repeatedly missed. I do not make the following statement lightly, but I consider that had Mr Singh been sent to a different prison in 2023, not in such a state of crisis, he would almost certainly still be alive today.
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