My brother Tommy Nicol took his own life in prison in 2015, six years into an indeterminate IPP sentence.  

Indeterminate sentences were abolished in 2012 but not retrospectively. The detrimental harms of these sentences are well known and there was an abhorrent lack of care concerning Tommy’s deteriorating mental health due to the IPP sentence. He was left alone and distressed in an unfurnished cell, already two years over his sentence.

At the inquest a forensic psychiatrist said he was almost certain that the IPP sentence more than minimally contributed to Tommy's death.