Many unhappy returns to prison / Guardian, 30 May 2007
http://society.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2090417,00.html
Eric Allison
"The email was poignantly short: "Christopher Tierney has died in Norwich prison." The news, though sad, was not unexpected. Tierney had been waiting to die since 2004, when he was diagnosed with having a brain tumour. He was in prison then, serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife in 1986. Following the diagnosis, he was released on licence, first to a probation hostel and later to a nursing home in Norwich that specialises in the treatment of brain injuries. Tierney was recalled to prison by his probation officer. His crime? He had sworn at a member of the nursing staff. Not nice but, according to medical experts, entirely consistent with his condition. Speaking at the time, Raymond Bewry, a member of the IMB at Norwich jail and whose mother had a brain tumour, said: "My mother receives care and consideration when she loses her temper. This extremely ill man has been sent to prison, where I feel he will die." And he did."