Woman jailed for arson 'killed herself after staff failed to monitor her'

Jury finds failure of HMP New Hall to implement suicide monitoring process a ‘key factor’ in Emily Hartley’s death

A woman serving a prison sentence for arson after setting herself on fire killed herself following a failure by staff to monitor her properly, an inquest jury has ruled.

Emily Hartley died in the grounds of HMP New Hall, a women’s prison in Wakefield, on 23 April 2016. She had been allowed into the prison’s exercise yard at about 2.30pm and was found hanged around two and a half hours later.

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