Murder suspect cell death: inquest opens

POLICE investigating after a man charged with the murder of a Rotherham bakery worker was found hanged in his prison cell said yesterday that there were no suspicious circumstances.

Hossein Abdollahzadeh, of Maple Road, Mexborough, was found unconscious in his cell at Doncaster Prison on Tuesday afternoon and pronounced dead minutes later.

The 32-year-old was remanded in custody at Sheffield Crown Court last Friday,

accused of drowning Polish-born Agnieszka Dziegielewska at her Swinton flat, and was due to enter a plea in April.

A prison spokesman said staff and paramedics attended the scene shortly before 3.30pm.

An inquest into Mr Abdollahzadeh’s death was opened and adjourned at Rotherham Coroner’s Court yesterday.

The court heard that the Iranian-born man fast food outlet manager had been found in cell 354 of block 3D.

Staff and paramedics attended tried to revive him but he was pronounced dead at 3.50pm.

The prison spokesman said that the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman would carry out an investigation but police told yesterday’s inquest that there were no suspicious circumstances.

Mr Abdollahzadeh’s body will be returned to his family in Iran for his funeral.

A 31-year-old Doncaster man, also arrested on suspicion of murdering “quiet and intelligent” Ms Dziegielewska, was this week released without charge.

Ms Dziegielewska came to the UK four years ago from Bialystok, north-east Poland.

She was found drowned in her bathroom at Horsefair Close, off Temperance Street, on January 28.