UK COVID-19 inquiry|26 Feb 2026
Startling evidence. Andrew Neilson and Pia Sinha.
Introduction
The two witnesses are;
Andrew Neilson. Director of campaigns at Howard League. The world’s oldest prison charity, with a long history of bringing people together to advocate for penal reform.
Pia Sinha. Director of women at HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system.
Testimony highlights
Extreme isolation policies.
No easing of restrictions in prison.
‘Self sacrifce’ mindset of prisoners started to wane.
‘‘Extremely restricitve regimes where people were spending upto 23 hours per day if not MORE in their cells with no purposeful activity and no visits.’’
‘‘All of that did definetely impact on people’s well-being.’’
‘‘In prisons (restrictions) just kept going..it was a constant.’’
‘‘That willingness…to take up the sacrifice started to wane as it became apparent to people there didn’t appear to be much light at the end of the tunnel if you were in the prison system.’’
Prison mortality rates and ‘COVID’ deaths
Deaths in custody increased noteably throughout Jan 2021.
Increase in self inflicted deaths.
Isolation linked to an increase in deaths.
COVID-19 deaths recorded not certain.
‘‘One would imagine that there is some linkage between the increase in self inflicted deaths and potentially how people were feeling adversely in prison because of the VERY RESTRICTED regimes.’’
‘‘Of course there is the increase in actual deaths ATTRIBUTED to COVID..how accurate that ultimately is WE DON’T KNOW.’’
Deaths in custody statistics
The Pfizer vaccine was unfeasible to use in the prison estate, due to requirements of storage and transportation. Only the Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccine was used in prisons and cleared for use on 4 th January 2021.—Source: Clinks.org
Source: GOV.UK
Withdrawal of healthcare/adverse mental health impacts
Exacerbated pre-existing health conditions.
Prisoners afraid of isolation.
Restrictions ‘a living nightmare.’
‘‘The pandemic WORSENED a long standing problem in prisons of dismissing health issues and prisoners having limited access to healthcare.’’
‘‘Individuals with chronic conditions such as diabetes and asthma missed routine external appointments.’’
‘‘Prisoners were confined for 23 hours per day and had less frequent clinician visits all of which negatively impacted their health.’’
‘‘The pandemic caused delays in transferring VERY UNWELL prisoners requiring mental health support or medical treatment to hospitals.’’
July 2025 report
“Prisons cannot go on like this. It is unconscionable to see the huge rise in deaths in custody, as well as continued spikes in self-harm and in assaults.’’
-Andrew Neilson, Director of Campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Thoughts
At Scottish and UK COVID inquiries families, care home managers and now those working within the prison system have all acknowledged the cruel and even lethal harms from human rights depriving lockdown restrictions including the removal of crucial life sustaining healthcare all the while questioning the legitimacy of COVID deaths recorded…and this is a pandemic?
Thanks for your attention.
All feedback welcome.
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RIGHT TO LIFE UK https://righttolife.org.uk/
I am getting in touch to share some very important and good news with you regarding the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill.
As you may have seen reported by the media today, the Government’s chief whip in the House of Lords, Lord Kennedy, has confirmed that the Government will not give the assisted suicide Bill more time, beyond the dates already announced, before this Parliamentary session ends in May.
For the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill to become law, it will have to pass all stages in the House of Lords by this May deadline.
With there being only five remaining sitting Fridays allocated to the Bill before May, without the Government granting the Bill further additional time as it did at the end of last year, the Bill will not have enough time to complete all its stages and become law.
Media outlets are reporting that this means that the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill will now “almost certainly fall” - and the assisted suicide campaigners behind the Bill have themselves confirmed with media outlets this afternoon that they also expect the legislation in its current form to now fail.
This is obviously a major and encouraging development - and an important milestone in our campaign to defeat the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill - but we are not there yet.
WE’RE ALMOST THERE, BUT IT’S NOT OVER YET
As I mentioned above, there are still five more sitting Fridays when the Bill will be debated before the end of the Parliamentary session in May.
We expect the assisted suicide lobby, led by the Bill’s sponsor in the House of Lords, Lord Falconer, to employ every tactic it can to try to use this remaining time in the Lords to its advantage.
From there, the assisted suicide lobby has made it clear that it is going to attempt to take the inappropriate and unprecedented route of bringing back the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill in the next parliamentary session and then using the Parliament Acts to bypass the House of Lords to force the Bill into law.
So we can expect a large battle over the next couple of months to ensure that the assisted suicide lobby is not able to take this route, and not able to bring back the Leadbeater Bill.
If we can stop that next step, the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill will be finished.
THE NEXT THREE MONTHS WILL BE PIVOTAL
Over these next three months, we will be facing three of the largest battles on life issues in UK history.
The first battle, as I have covered above, will be stopping the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill from being brought back in the next Parliament, and this battle will likely run over March, April and May.
The second battle will be to defeat the Scottish McArthur assisted suicide Bill at its final Stage 3 vote, which will be taking place in March.
Following the Stage 1 vote in Scotland, The Telegraph published a piece based on analysis from our Public Affairs team, which revealed that more than 20 MSPs who initially voted for the Bill have indicated they could vote against it at the final vote at Stage 3.
If just seven of these MSPs switch their stance and vote against the Bill, it will be defeated at Stage 3.
So this battle is very much winnable.
The third battle will be around the abortion up to birth clause in the Crime and Policing Bill.
As you will likely recall, in June last year, pro-abortion MPs, led by Tonia Antoniazzi MP, hijacked the Crime and Policing Bill to rush through the abortion up to birth clause after just 46 minutes of backbench debate – there was no prior consultation with the public, no Committee Stage scrutiny and no evidence sessions.
Baroness Monckton is leading a group of Members of the House of Lords, who have tabled an amendment to overturn the abortion up to birth clause.
Baroness Stroud has joined other Peers in tabling another amendment, which would ensure that women have an in-person consultation with a medical professional before taking abortion pills at home.
This would help protect women from the grave health risks involved with performing a late-term abortion, along with identifying many other health risks that can be accurately assessed with an in-person consultation.
It would also protect babies from having their lives ended in late-term home abortions.
The vote on these two amendments - and a very large battle with the abortion lobby, who will attempt to defeat them - will be taking place in the House of Lords in March.
As you can see, we face three very large battles over the coming months.
I am going to be in contact a bit more than usual with important actions that I will need you to take to ensure that we are all working together to defeat these extreme proposed changes to our laws.
https://righttolife.org.uk/
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