Calls for health secretary to help IPP prisoner who set himself alight after serving 12 years for stealing phone

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Clara White has written to health secretary Wes Streeting Now his heartbroken sister Clara White has written to the health secretary Wes Streeting in a desperate appeal for him to intervene and find her brother a hospital bed before he makes another attempt on his own life. “Mr White expressed feeling depressed about his long imprisonment without a set release date, citing this as the reason for his previous suicide attempt,” Dr Deepu Thomas said, concluding he should be moved to a medium secure unit. In a previous report last year, the same psychiatrist said that the indefinite jail term, which had a two-year minimum tariff, was the “probable cause” of his poor mental health. Labour peer Lord Woodley this month called for the government not to be on the “wrong side of history” as he called for IPP prisoners to be resentenced in a private member’s bill.