@article{ref1,
title="Suicide in custody",
journal="Cambridge law journal",
year="1998",
author="Weir, T.",
volume="57",
number="2",
pages="235-273",
abstract="Remanded in custody on charges of fraud and failure to answer to bail, Martin Lynch, 29 years old, was placed in a very bare cell at Kentish Town Police Station just before one o'clock on 23 March 1990. The doctor called by the police, who knew that he was a suicide risk and had consequently removed his belt, thought him quite sane. At 1.57 p.m. the police checked his well-being, but on the next visit only eight minutes later he was found irremediably unconscious: he had hanged himself by threading his shirt through the hatch in the door and the much smaller spy-hole above it. This was possible only because the glass lens was missing from the spy-hole and the flap of the hatch had been left open, contrary to standing orders. © 1998, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0008-1973",
doi="10.1017/S0008197398240013",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008197398240013"
}