Suicides difficult to predict, psychiatrist tells jail hanging death inquest

The suicide of an accused serial rapist at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre may have been “impulsive,” a forensic psychiatrist told an inquest looking into the man’s death.
Yousef Hussein, 27, was found hanging in his cell on April 12, 2016. He was one of three inmates in the jail to kill himself by hanging while in segregation at the jail within a 10-month period. 
Hussein had been placed on suicide watch in segregation on April 8, 2016. He remained there over the wee