Paedophile who was 'hearing voices' died in cell after staff ended suicide watch

dailystar.co.uk:

prison staff ended his suicide watch "prematurely", the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has revealed. Paul Cavner, 56, was pronounced dead by paramedics after he was found hanged with a blanket in his cell at HMP Northumberland on November 1,2020.

He was sentenced alongside four child abusers in September 2019, for crimes against a vulnerable girl who was "prostituted out" from the age of nine up until she was 14.

She was sickeningly offered to a string of men in exchange for money, alcohol and cigarettes.Cavner was found not to have had as much of an active role in the crimes as the others, but his vile actions prompted the girl to finally seek refuge.He was found guilty of one count of rape and one of indecent assault and was jailed for nine years.According to the PPO report, in October 2020, Cavner took an overdose of a number of medications, saying it was because "people were shouting at him at night and watching him through the air vents".He was taken to hospital and discharged the next day, and the prison began its suicide and self-harm prevention procedures, known as Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT).Ten days after it began, the monitoring was stopped.

And six days after that, Cavner was found hanging in his cell.Ombudsman Sue McAllister said: "I am concerned that staff stopped ACCT monitoring prematurely.