Overview
- Withnell was discovered unresponsive in his bed by his cellmate at HMP Parc on February 5 in what the coroner described as an unexpected death.
- South Wales Central Area Coroner Andrew Morse opened the inquest at Pontypridd and adjourned it to obtain further evidence, with a hearing date to be set.
- Dr Adam Dallmann conducted the examination at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital and reported the cause as pending further tests.
- The 74-year-old had begun a 21-year sentence on January 16 at Cardiff Crown Court after convictions for child sexual offences from the 1980s.
- A jury found him guilty of four rapes of a girl under 16, six counts of gross indecency with a girl under 14, and eight indecent assaults, and he admitted creating and possessing 132 category C indecent images.