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Covid-19: HMP Littlehey missed opportunities in first reported inmate virus death
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image captionEdwin Hillier had been sentenced for child sex offences
Opportunities to identify Covid-19 were missed in the treatment of the first prisoner reported to have died with the virus, a report has concluded.
Edwin Hillier, an inmate at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire, died on 22 March 2020.
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report said the 84-year-old must have contracted Covid-19 at the prison .
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it had introduced new measures at the prison since Hillier died.
Hillier was reported to have been the first inmate to have died with Covid-19, although it was later found that HMP Peterborough inmate Brett Moore died four days earlier.
Convicted paedophile dies after catching Covid-19 in Cambs prison
Edwin Hillier, 84, died at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in March last year
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A convicted paedophile serving his sentence in Cambridgeshire became the first UK prisoner to die from Covid-19 in March last year.
Former school caretaker Edwin Hillier, who died on March 22 2020, was serving an eight and a half year sentence for abusing girls in the 1970s.