The household of a prisoner who was left to die in his cell have launched a nationwide combat for justice.
Greater than 60 supporters gathered outdoors the Scottish Parliament yesterday to demand justice for Calum Inglis and have gained backing from the household of Allan Marshall, who died a preventable loss of life in jail.
Calum, 34, died at HMP Addiewell in West Lothian final October – 10 days after testing constructive for Covid.
His household declare jail workers ignored the bronchial asthma sufferer’s dying pleas for medical assist and did not name an ambulance though he was coughing up blood.
Yesterday, mum Jen, 62, dad Alan, 61, aunt Linda Simpson, 66, and sister Frances Marr, 32, led the launch of the Justice for Calum Inglis marketing campaign.
Jen mentioned: “We all know that is simply the beginning of a protracted street to get justice for my son.”
Alan added: “The unbelievable turnout makes us really feel we're not alone.”
The household have referred to as for the privately run jail to be closed and the officers liable for his care to be prosecuted.
The Sunday Mail first revealed the surprising particulars of Calum’s tragic loss of life final week.
Sister Frances Marr, a nurse practitioner, mentioned: “We're not the victims on this scenario, Calum is. However he's not right here to combat for himself, so we should do it for him.”
Proof from different prisoners and textual content messages from a telephone Calum had in his cell outlined how his pleas for assist went unanswered.
He repeatedly requested medical consideration by way of his cell intercom within the final 4 days of his life and was promised by jail officers that “somebody will see you within the morning” – however no person ever got here.
Calum’s remaining message to his mum, on the day earlier than he died, learn: “Really feel like I'm about 90 years previous, utterly burning up, it’s scary.”
The jail additionally mislaid most of Calum’s clothes and private objects, which the household later found had been donated to a jail “poor field”.
Calum, who was 6ft 7in, was discovered useless in his cell at 8.24am on October 24 final yr.
The household have been informed there will likely be a deadly accident inquiry however worry it will likely be years earlier than it takes place.
Calum, from Edinburgh, had labored as a labourer and kitchen fitter and in 2020 he was convicted of assault and sentenced to 36 months. He was due for launch in January.
Pal Stevie Morrison, 35, who organised the protest, additionally referred to as for a full investigation into his loss of life.
Dad-of-three Stevie, from Edinburgh, mentioned: “If Calum had been sorted correctly he would nonetheless be alive right now.”
Backing for the marketing campaign yesterday got here from the household of one other loss of life in custody sufferer, Allan Marshall. Allan, 30, from Glasgow, died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in March 2015 and the Sunday Mail printed surprising CCTV photos of him being dragged to his loss of life by officers on the metropolis’s Saughton jail.
A deadly accident inquiry into Allan’s loss of life in 2018 dominated it was “solely preventable”.
His aunt Sharon MacFadyen, 47, of Rutherglen, close to Glasgow, mentioned: “We might be prepared to help the Inglis household in any method we will.”
HMP Addiewell is run by personal agency Sodexo Justice Companies and has been hit with controversies over staffing shortages because it opened at a price of £80million in 2008.
Jail director Fraser Munro expressed his condolences to the household however couldn’t remark due to FAI plans.
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