Footage reveals prisoner committed suicide

The footage showed Ward using an “evidence suit” given to him by the homicide bureau to wear and attaching it to a cell bar where he hanged himself.

Yesterday, an autopsy revealed Ward died from hanging and there were no marks of injuries to suggest that Ward was a victim of murder.

Police are treating Ward’s death as a suicide and an inquest will be ordered into his demise.

Ward was detained on Friday night for the shooting death of Rasheed Khan who was shot in the Caura district on Friday. Ward and another man were detained for the shooting death.

Police sources revealed that Ward ,who spent six years in prison, had confided to prisoners at the station that he did not want to go back to jail hence, the decision to end his life.