Prisoner found hanged in cell
A man jailed earlier this month for sex offences was found hanged in his cell at Paparua Prison early on Monday morning. He was Alan Joseph Revell, aged 30, of Christchurch. A prison officer making a regular check of the cells found Revell hanging by a
sheet from a sprinkler fitting about 12.20 a.m. Revell was alone in a cell in the protection area of the prison. He began a four-year term of imprisonment on July 13 after being convicted on two charges of sodomy and two of indecent assault. Mr Justice Roper said during sentencing in the High Court that the offences had occurred over a period of years with, on Revell’s own admission, about 100 incidents short of sodomy with the same boy. The boy, who had been frequently indecently assaulted since the age of nine, was now living the life of a homosexual, his Honour said. The superintendent of Paparua Prison, Mr Humphrey Stroud, said that Revell had applied for protective segregation and had been in the segregation wing since his arrival at prison.
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