21-year-old student jailed for drink-driving kills herself in cell after frequent naked searches by officers
It has been claimed that a student, who committed suicide in jail, lost about 80% of her hair while incarcerated due to stress because she was made to excessively strip completely naked by prison guards during random searches. Katie Allan's parents claimed that prison officers at Polmont made their daughter a target for the searches and this ended up causing her increased mental torment. The claim comes months after the news emerged that Katie was unnecessarily bullied by fellow inmates. This was said to be what caused her tragic death in June.
The 21-year-old University of Glasgow student had been put in jail for hitting a 15-year-old schoolboy in Giffnock that caused him to bleed from his head. He, however, eventually recovered from the wounds. As part of the claim, Katie's 51-year-old mother, Linda, and 54-year-old father, Stewart, said that the torment that was suffered by their daughter led to her suffering from stress-induced alopecia, which is a condition that was flagged to the doctor in the jail, reported the Scottish Sun.