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Stuart Berry

Evidence boundary. This page is a structured project extraction from the linked primary Prevention of Future Deaths source. It is not the report text. Do not infer cause, prevalence or product-wide performance beyond the source and the explicit qualification below.

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Report metadata

Field Value
PFD reference 2026-0015
Registered primary source SRC-199
Report date 2026-01-12
Coroner area Essex
Clinical setting Community mental health and prison healthcare
Care transition Community and court suicide-risk information to prison reception and care
Primary workflow group Risk, care planning and safeguarding
Primary browsing context Secure and custodial care
Predominant information boundary Across health and non-health sectors

The workflow, browsing-context and predominant-boundary fields are retained navigation aids. They are not additional coronial findings, and a single primary value cannot express every aspect of a multi-setting or multi-mechanism report.

Care-pathway classification

This classification distinguishes where safety-relevant information or work arose, where action was expected and where the digital or information workflow failed. It is a project coding of the source, not a coronial statement. “Origin” does not mean the organisation caused the harm.

Dimension Project classification
Settings and pathway participants Community mental-health care, Prison, custody or secure healthcare, Police, local authority or other non-health agency
Information or work-item origin Multiple settings or services
Origin care context(s) Community care, Non-health agency
Expected action destination Prison, custody or secure healthcare
Destination care context(s) Secure or custodial healthcare
Directional pathway Multiple settings or services → Prison, custody or secure healthcare
Care-setting span Multiple care settings
Sector boundary Health and non-health sectors
Failure point Multiple points
Classification confidence high

Classification note: Community and court risk information required transfer into prison healthcare and operational supervision; both handover and receiving documentation failed.

Classification confidence applies only to this care-pathway coding. It is separate from extraction confidence, source authority and causal certainty.

Evidence status and qualification

Field Status
Extraction confidence high
Verification status Primary source linked; high-confidence extraction
Response evidence status Response evidence noted
Registered response sources SRC-249, SRC-250, SRC-251
Non-exclusive mechanism codes LOOP, GOV, VIS, HF, INT, PROV

Qualification recorded in the dataset: The jury found gross failures in constant supervision and the report contains extensive training, environmental and staffing concerns; digital documentation is one material strand. The embedded report is signed 2026-01-12; the Judiciary page says 2025-12-01, before the stated 2025-12-05 inquest conclusion

“Response evidence noted” means only that the row qualification refers to response/respondent evidence or records a recipient's post-report position. The linked IDs enumerate the official response attachments registered for this row; they do not imply that every response supports every part of the qualification, and they do not establish implementation. “Not assessed” makes no claim about whether a response exists.

Structured project extraction

These fields are analytical summaries, not quotations.

Project summary of the coroner's concern

Comprehensive information-sharing, documentation, assessment and escalation failures indicated serious training and assurance deficits

Requested action

EPUT, HCRG, HMPPS and the Ministry of Justice to address record, care-planning, training, supervision and suicide-prevention concerns

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type SystmOne and prison operational records
Digital function Suicide-risk documentation, care planning and escalation
Failure mode Material suicide risk was not documented in SystmOne, electronic records were inadequate and information from community care did not reach prison decision-makers
Human-factors issue Staff relied on transient presentation and incomplete documentation rather than the known longitudinal risk picture
Workflow issue No reliable handover, urgent mental-health referral or quality-control process reconciled court, community and reception information
Information issue Extreme suicide risk, care plans and assessments were absent or inconsistent in the receiving record

Downstream Defence trace

No canonical candidate Defence requirement currently cites this report. This does not imply that the mechanism is irrelevant; any mapping must be added and qualified in the controlled requirements register.

The included-case dataset preserves early legacy_military_relevance and legacy_derived_requirement fields for audit history. They are not published here as requirements and must not override the canonical REQ register. New report rows do not need to populate them.