A Home Office post-mortem examination found the Londoner’s cause of death requires further investigation
A London prisoner has died after being attacked. Inmate Krishan Rawal, 28, was targeted by a fellow prisoner at HMP Highpoint, in Suffolk, and died days later in hospital.
Rawal sustained a wound to the area of his right armpit in the attack and was admitted to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge on January 23. He was returned to the prison after receiving treatment, but then readmitted to the hospital on January 27 and died there.
A total of five fellow prisoners at HMP Highpoint have now been arrested in connection. Three other prisoners were arrested on suspicion of murder and in an update this week two prisoners were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Suffolk Police said that two men, both inmates at HMP Highpoint, were arrested on Tuesday. The men, one aged in his 40s and the other aged in his 30s, were taken to Bury St Edmunds Police Investigation Centre for questioning.
They have since been returned to the prison and remain under investigation. It follows the arrests of three other men earlier this year, also inmates at the prison, on suspicion of murder.
The three men – two aged in their 20s and one in his 30s – have all been returned to the prison and they remain under investigation.
HMP Highpoint is a category C training and resettlement prison at an old RAF station in the village of Stradishall in rural Suffolk.
A Home Office post-mortem examination on January 30 found that Rawal’s cause of death requires further investigation.
Police said they continue to work closely with HMP Highpoint to establish the full circumstances of the incident.
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