Highpoint murder inquiry – two further arrests made

Two people have been arrested in connection with the death of a man at Highpoint Prison, in Stradishall, earlier this year.

Detectives were called to Addenbrookes’ Hospital, in Cambridge, at 11.11am on Tuesday, January 27, following the death of a 28-year-old man.

The deceased was an inmate of HMP Highpoint and had been admitted to Addenbrookes’ on Friday, January 23, having sustained a wound to the area of his right armpit, following an attack by another prisoner.

He was transported to and treated in hospital, before returning to prison.

He was then readmitted to hospital on the Tuesday where he died.

The man has been formally identified as 28-year-old Krishan Rawal, from London.

A Home Office post-mortem examination was conducted on Friday, January 30, and determined that the cause of death would be subject to further investigation.

Yesterday, Tuesday, March 31, police arrested a man aged in his 40s and a man aged in his 30s, both on suspicion of assisting an offender.

Both men – who are inmates at HMP Highpoint – were taken to Bury St Edmunds Police Investigation Centre (PIC) for questioning.

They have since been returned to the prison and remain under investigation.

These arrests follow the previous arrests of three other inmates – all on suspicion of murder – as follows:

• a man aged in his 20s who was arrested on Friday, January 31;
• a man aged in his 30s who was arrested on Tuesday, February 4; and
• another man aged in his 20s who was arrested on Thursday, February 5.

All three men were taken to Bury St Edmunds PIC for questioning and were subsequently returned back to prison. They remain under investigation.

Suffolk Police continues to work closely with HMP Highpoint to establish the full circumstances of the incident.