Overview

• Steven Wood died in hospital on 17 September while serving his sentence at HMP Frankland, triggering a Prisons and Probation Ombudsman investigation.
• Wood had pleaded guilty to attempted murder and received a life sentence with a minimum 12-year term after the judge deemed him a high danger to the public.
• The attack in May 2021 left Martina Turner with 29 stab wounds, and she survived by hiding in a cupboard where she used her phone to call for help.
• Emergency crews forced entry after Wood locked the house and police later found him under the Redheugh Bridge before he was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
• Turner says his death brings a sense of safety yet she continues to face severe physical and psychological effects and had feared his eventual release.