https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy1v39xgz1o
Inmate was 'isolated and depressed' before death
[…] Karbauskas, a Lithuanian national, was first remanded into custody at HMP Lincoln on 19 March 2022, at which point he had a suicide and self-harm warning on his records.
It came to light six months later that a mental health referral that was made for him at the time was never actioned.
The jury inquest heard the inmate "spoke very little English" and required an interpreter for appointments and assessments. […]
That referral - which the court heard should have been actioned within 48 hours -did not happen because an interpreter had not been arranged, despite specific notes on the system in which the referral was logged. […]
A Quaker chaplain at the prison also tried to help the inmate, and noted in a statement read to the jury that Karbauskas "spoke no English at all".
Despite efforts to find an interpreter, the chaplain said nobody who spoke Lithuanian could be found, when she saw him. […]
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