Mentally ill woman died in cell after monitoring was reduced, inquest hears

Sarah Reed had psychotic episodes and was screaming and shouting in HMP Holloway, but observation was reduced to one per hour

A vulnerable and seriously mentally ill woman had her supervision reduced and was unable to access her anti-psychotic medication before she died in Holloway Prison, an inquest has heard.

Sarah Reed, 32, had been classed as at low risk of self-harm by prison healthcare staff. At the opening of the inquest into her death, assistant coroner for the City of London, Peter Thornton, told the jury that Reed developed serious mental health problems in 2003 after the death of her baby at the age of nine months from muscular atrophy.

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