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Jail and health board admit criminal charges over Covid death prisoner
Calum Inglis was found dead in a prison cell in October 2021
A company which runs a private prison and a health board has admitted criminal charges following the death of a prisoner who contracted Covid-19.
The case is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind in the UK and comes after the Crown Office investigated about 6,000 deaths related to the pandemic.
Calum Inglis, 34, from Edinburgh, was serving a short sentence in HMP Addiewell, West Lothian, for serious assault when he tested positive for coronovirus on 12 October 2021.
Inglis, who was asthmatic and unvaccinated, was found dead in his cell 12 days later.
The prison was run by Sodexo on behalf of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and was covered by NHS Lothian.
Inglis' mother Jen, sister Frances, lawyer Aamer Anwar and father Alan speak to the media after meeting the lord advocate last year
Before his death on 24 October, Inglis was not seen by an NHS Lothian nurse, and reported being breathless and coughing up significant amounts of blood, lawyers for his family claimed.
It is alleged that in the last four days of his life, he repeatedly requested medical attention via his cell intercom, to be promised by the prison officers that someone would see him in the morning - but no-one came.
His family's solicitor Aamer Anwar previously described his death, on 24 October 2021, as "agonising".