A man who murdered a pregnant Lincoln woman died in prison after refusing medical treatment.
In 2014, he took an overdose of insulin because he was angry with staff, requiring further hospital treatment.In December 2019, Hughes told the prison pharmacy he would stop taking treatment until “pain relief was sorted out”, despite medical staff warning him of the dangers. He had previously escaped from a hospital escort on a previous sentence, and in 1996 he injured a court custody officer.
His cause of death was determined to be acute renal failure and sepsis due to the restriction of blood to lower limbs, which was contributed to by diabetes and vascular disease.
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