Faulty intercom stopped woman preventing husband's jail suicide

A woman who drove 60 miles to Wormwood Scrubs to stop her husband killing himself was unable to alert prison staff because the telephone line and the intercom were broken, a coroner has said.

- Nadeem Badshah

Isaiah Adekunle Olugosi died in his cell in 2022 with an inquest jury last week deciding it was suicide. Olugosi's wife spoke to him at about 9pm on 27 March and believed he was suicidal, according to a prevention of future deaths report. Mrs Olugosi, Cambridgeshire Police and the Metropolitan Police were all unable to contact the men's prison in west London by telephone to warn them because "calls were being diverted to an unmanned or obsolete number". Instead, she drove for two hours from Cambridge to Wormwood Scrubs where she banged on the main gate. She also called out and pressed a buzzer that promised to connect her to an intercom through which she could sp