Call for prisons to lose immunity from prosecution after report into suicides of Katie Allan, 20, and William Lindsay, 16, at Polmont

The deaths of two young people in custody could have been avoided, according to the long-awaited report of a joint inquiry into their suicides within months of one another.

The 419-page document, which identified “a catalogue of failures” in the system that was charged with their care, prompted their families’ lawyer to call on the UK government to end prisons’ immunity from prosecution.

In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org