Prisoner hanged himself as jailer watched cartoon

A POLICE jailer accused of watching a Disney cartoon while a prisoner hanged himself in his cell told a jury yesterday he thought a colleague was carrying out hourly checks on inmates.

David Stoll, aged 49, was jailer in the custody suite at St Mary’s Wharf Police Station, Derby, on the night 32-year-old Craig Boyd hanged himself in a cell.

The trial has heard PC Stoll failed to visit the cells at 2am and 3am. Mr Boyd was found dead at 4am on March 16, 2004.