Overview
- The Prison Service confirmed the 37-year-old died on 23 September 2025 at the Category A prison in West Yorkshire.
- The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman said its investigation began on Tuesday and that a final report will be published after the inquest.
- Mohammed Saleem’s daughter said she was informed by a victim liaison officer, has not been told the circumstances of the death, and has chosen to forgive Lapshyn.
- Lapshyn was jailed for life with a minimum term of 40 years in 2013 for murdering 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem and for planting bombs near West Midlands mosques.
- Police had identified him using CCTV showing Delcam work clothing and found bomb-making materials and white supremacist literature, and he was later caught making an explosive substance in his prison cell.