Wen, ‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years
Tom Osborne, the senior coroner for Milton Keynes, said Scott Rider had given up all hope of release before he took his own life at HMP Woodhill in June 2022.
Indefinite sentences were ended years ago, but it is claimed that reviewing sentences would be an unbearable strain on a system that has found courts and judges for asylum cases.