Police officers could be heard “coming up from everywhere” and yelling, “Get the Defib!” after an officer saw Claire Harper lying face up on the floor of her cell.
Prison officer Ian Potter told the inquest that Detective Darren Stoker had said: “I'm worried about the person in cell 29. I think she's dead.”
After checking on Ms Harper and finding her “quite cold and quite pale” and not breathing or having a pulse, DO Potter set off a panic alarm and began CPR.
He and Detention Sergeant Claudine Binns also tried to use a defibrillator, but Ms Binns said: “I realized I couldn't shock them because there was nothing to shock them with.” spoke.
Ms Harper, a 41-year-old mother of seven, was taken by ambulance to Bradford Royal Infirmary where she was pronounced dead just an hour later at 1.41pm.
The inquest at Bradford Coroner's Court looked into Ms Harper's death on January 7, 2018, when she was being checked every 30 minutes by detention officer Richard Eastwood.
The inquest previously heard that 50 minutes had passed between when she was last seen sleeping on the floor of her cell at 11.36am and when she was found unresponsive at 12.26pm. are.
Jane Chapman, a former detention center sergeant who is now retired, said the same officer was in charge of visiting Harper's cell and distributing food when she died in 2018.
She said her team would follow the same route through “busy” custody rooms, and officers could call for help if they started to fall behind under time pressure.
She said: “It would be the visiting officer who would need to be proactive and ask for help.”
She said Chief Eastwood had not checked on Mr. Harper after noon, but that did not come to Mr. Harper's attention. If she had known he was having trouble juggling both roles, she would have assigned another officer to help.
Asked whether any medical conditions had been raised regarding Mr Harper, former Sergeant Chapman said: “There was nothing untoward.”
Claudine Binns, a former detention center sergeant who is now retired, said January 7 was “extremely manic” due to the large number of detainees at the scene.
She said she ran to Harper's cell when the alarm went off and found him “cold to the touch.”
She noted that no cell observations were recorded in the last 30 minutes before Ms. Harper was found unresponsive, and that Agent Eastwood did not express any concerns to her about time pressure. Confirmed.
Attorney General Eastwood previously told the inquest that he was reluctant to seek help from Mr Binns because of problems he had had with the couple.
Asked if she was aware of any issues between herself and Commissioner Eastwood, Ms. Binns said, “No.”
She added: “You can only address a problem if you are aware of it.”
She suggested that the incident may have resulted from “human error” and that Eastwood's Department of Justice “may not have been aware of this issue until after the incident occurred.”
