Child rapist died after series of prison failings

A RAPIST died after a series of failings by a prison.

- CONOR GOGARTY

HMP Stafford

John Warry was serving a 12-year sentence for the horrific sexual abuse of a toddler.

The 73-year-old, from Barry, died in September 2022, at HMP Stafford, a jail for sex offenders.

A prisons ombudsman report has found there were mistakes by a prison GP and healthcare staff before his death.

Warry, of Well Walk, had been handed a 12-year sentence in 2017 after a jury found him guilty of five counts of raping a child.

He had initially been sentenced to nine years in prison with an extra year on licence after release.

But that jail term handed down at Cardiff Crown Court by Judge Patrick Curran KC was challenged by the then-solicitor general Robert Buckland KC, who argued it should have been much tougher.