Rapist's death on remand at Scots prison to be probed in Fatal Accident Inquiry
dailyrecord.co.ukAn inquiry will be held into the death of a rapist at Low Moss prison. Paul Dowds died in hospital after collapsing while on remand at the Bishopbriggs jail.
Glasgow Sheriff Court will hear details of the circumstances leading up to his death at a Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) in the new year, reports Glasgow Live.
The 45-year-old was a convicted sex offender who was sentenced to seven years in 2007 for rape. Dowds had previously flouted the terms of the sex offenders' register by going AWOL in his native Greenock for almost a week.
He went missing and was later tracked down to Blackpool’s Victoria Hospital 220 miles from home — after being stabbed.Dowds was found three weeks after he vanished from Greenock, amid reports he'd been stabbed by a vigilante gang.In May 2018, he and his accomplice, half- brother Kevin Johnston, 41, were caught trying to rob a sheltered housing complex in Greenock.
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