Mystery over nurse who gave 'unsafe' care to prisoner who later died

Mystery over nurse who gave 'unsafe' care to prisoner who later died

Nearly three years on from the death of Lockleaze man Marc Uzzell in prison , mystery surrounds the fate of a nurse who provided him with “poor and unsafe care” in the days before he died. Uzzell, 42, started coughing up blood on Christmas Eve 2022 while he was on remand in HMP Bristol for ‘violent offences’ - he died in hospital four days later.

Uzzell had previously been jailed for two years for slashing security guards at a Sainsbury's in Stoke Gifford in 2019.

The ombudsman’s investigation found that poor and unsafe clinical handling when Mr Uzzell initially reported feeling unwell led to delay in assessing and treating him.

The first nurse, an agency worker referred to only as Nurse A in an ombudsman’s report