Overview
- Investigators from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman opened a case after Thomas Haigh, 40, died at HMP Manchester on March 15.
- Officials confirmed his death and posted his details on the watchdog’s site, while releasing no information about the cause or circumstances.
- Haigh was serving a life sentence for shooting David Griffiths, 35, and Brett Flournoy, 31, in 2011 at a farm near St Austell in Cornwall.
- The victims’ bodies were burned and buried, and Ross Stone was cleared of murder but jailed for five years for obstructing a coroner by disposing of the remains.
- Haigh, a former cage fighter from Huddersfield, surrendered to police after the killings and later had his minimum term cut on appeal from 35 to 32 years.