Dead Wymott inmate was a Blackpool sex offender (From Preston and Leyland Citizen)

Dead Wymott inmate was a Blackpool sex offender

10:10am Tuesday 7th October 2008

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A man who died after being found in his Leyland prison cell with head injuries was a registered sex offender from Blackpool.

David Winder, a prisoner at HMP Wymott in Leyland, died at the Royal Preston Hospital on Sunday after he was found in his cell at Wymott jail, near Chorley, by a fellow prisoner.

Mr Winder, 48, of Falkirk Avenue, Bispham, was found with a broken jaw and was bleeding from the head.

Police are not treating his death as suspicious after a scan at hospital revealed Winder had brain cancer.

A post mortem yesterday however was inconclusive.

Mr Winder was jailed for four years in July for possession over 2,500 child porn images.

It was the second time he had served time for a similar crime, after being sentenced to five years behind bars in 2000 for five offences of indecently assaulting a female and one of taking indecent photographs.

The coroner has been informed but no inquest date has been set.

His family have been informed.

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