Nottingham Post published Nurse 'banned' from seeing inmate who later died in his cell,...

A nurse told an inquest she was barred from examining a prison inmate after staff refused to let him out of his cell. Grace Mashiri was giving evidence at the inquest into the death of Ateeq Rafiq, 40, who was held in Nottingham Prison on May 23 last year. He was awaiting court on charges of theft and having an offensive weapon.Miss Mashiri, who had been hired by an agency, described him as "irate" and would not allow her to carry out "baseline observations" in his cell. She...