Artist’s ‘never-ending’ jail term led to sense of hopelessness, inquest told

Psychologist Nicky Asplin says Charlotte Nokes was frustrated in months before she died in Sodexo-run prison

A “never-ending” prison sentence handed to an artist who died in her cell led to a “sense of hopelessness” and “frustration”, a psychologist has told an inquest.

Charlotte Nokes, 38, was jailed in 2008 under an imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence, under which offenders are given a minimum jail tariff but no maximum, the inquest in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, was told.

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