8-4-2010 United Kingdom:A child rapist has allegedly been stamped to death in his prison cell by a fellow inmate.
Robert Coello, 44, who was serving a sentence for sexually assaulting a minor, was found with head injuries in his cell in G wing of HMP Grendon in Buckinghamshire on Sunday.
He was taken to Stoke Mandeville Hospital but pronounced dead later that day, Thames Valley Police said.
The force said a 25-year-old inmate was arrested on Sunday evening before being bailed and returned to prison.
Officers are waiting for results of a post-mortem examination by a Home Office pathologist.
Coello was jailed at Reading Crown Court in August 2006, after admitting four counts of rape and 12 other sexual assaults.
He was serving a minimum seven year sentence.
HMP Grendon opened in 1962 as an experimental psychiatric prison, providing treatment for prisoners with antisocial personality disorders, under the direction of a medical superintendent, according the HM Prison Service website.
It is now run by a Prison Service governor and continues to operate a regime of therapeutic care for offenders.
The prison can house up to 235 inmates in Category B secure conditions, with the six wings operating as autonomous therapeutic communities. Prisoners must be committed to staying drug free while in therapy.
It is believed to be the first time an inmate has been killed in a category B prison.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: 'There has been no change to the type of prisoner held there in recent months, and no change to the vetting process.' ..Source.. by Daily Mail Reporter
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Inmate denies murdering sex offender Robert Coello
10-31-2011:
An inmate killed a sex offender in his cell by kicking and punching him, causing a fatal brain injury, in a "ferocious attack", a court has heard.
Lee Foye, 27, denies murdering Robert Coello, 44, on 1 August 2010 in HM Prison Grendon, Buckinghamshire.
Prosecutor Neil Moore said Foye, who worked out in the gym, despised 11-stone serial child sex offender Coello.
Luton Crown Court heard there was evidence of Foye's footwear on Coello's body but fists may also have been used.
"The evidence is the defendant repeatedly kicked or stamped or both on his head and body," Mr Moore said.
He said two other inmates nearby heard the noise and went to inspect but the window had been covered in tissue paper.
The attack left Coello, originally from Whitley in Berkshire, with multiple fractures.
'Abnormality of mind'
"His head and body were extensively bruised and he suffered a brain injury that caused his death," Mr Moore said.
He said that, after the attack, Foye, originally from Corby in Northamptonshire, removed his bloodied clothes, which were later found in a prison bin.
Mr Moore said that, before the attack, Foye had said of Coello: "People like that should be put down."
At the start of the afternoon court session, Judge Richard Foster told the jury Foye had been taken back to prison because he was feeling unwell.
Mr Moore said psychiatrists found Foye suffered from a social personality disorder and that the defence would argue he had diminished responsibility at the time of the killing.
He urged the jury to consider the lesser charge of manslaughter.
"All those who assessed the defendant, all the experts, say he was suffering from abnormality of the mind at the time of the killing," Mr Moore said.
The case continues. ..Source.. by BBC
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Inmate Lee Foye guilty of prison murder jailed for 35 years
11-15-2011 United Kingdom:
An inmate who beat a sex offender to death in prison has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years after being convicted of murder.
Lee Foye, 26, stamped on Robert Coello, 44, so hard at HM Prison Grendon, Buckinghamshire, that the tread of his shoes could be seen on Coello's body.
Luton Crown Court heard Foye despised the serial child sex offender.
After convicting Foye the jury was told he was serving life for murdering a former lover in front of her son.
Judge Richard Foster said Foye's jail sentence would run concurrently to the 16-year sentence he is serving for his first murder.
Inquiry call
It means Foye cannot even be considered for parole until he is aged 61.
Jailing him at Luton Crown Court the judge said: "It was a callous, premeditated murder of a helpless victim."
Judge Foster said Foye had "manipulated the prison authorities to facilitate" his move to Grendon saying he had chosen Coello as his victim "perhaps because he had been vocal about his own offending."
The judge said: "I hope there will be a full inquiry into how appropriate it was for Lee Foye to be kept at HMP Grendon."
The court heard Coello, of Whitley, Reading, was attacked after he upset prisoners with graphic details of his crimes.
He had been placed in a wing with prisoners who were not sex offenders because the prison was so full and under its regime had been encouraged to talk about his feelings with other inmates, the court heard.
Foye carried out a ferocious attack on Coello after going into his cell and locking the door behind him.
Foye, who had boycotted the trial and was not present for the verdict, cut off both his ears in Woodhill Prison, Milton Keynes, while waiting for the case to come to court.
His defence had argued he should be convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Toddler's cries
Two women jurors cried when the prosecution revealed Foye's previous victim, Lauren Strachan, 19, of Corby, suffered 47 different stab wounds and 28 other injuries in August 2005.
Foye, then 20, was living with another woman at the time and is believed to have gone to Ms Strachan for sex and then killed her when she threatened to tell his girlfriend.
Her body was found the following morning when neighbours heard the cries of her two-year-old son.
Patrick Mandikate, the prison's head of psychotherapy, admitted he was "uneasy" with the decision to place Coello on G Wing last year.
He said: "It was made clear to me in no uncertain terms that we needed to fill these beds no matter who was available." ..Source.. by BBC
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