The three-week hearing into the death of Adam Rickwood, 14, was scheduled to start yesterday (Tuesday).
Rickwood was found hanging in his room at Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in County Durham on 9 August 2004. He was on remand facing a charge of wounding and had been restrained by custody staff hours before his death.
The inquest will look at why he was placed in a secure training centre more than 150 miles from his family and what action was taken to protect him, given his age and known vulnerability to self-harm.
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