Play keeps spotlight on ‘uncaring’ Woodhill Prison

After the inquest, Linda says she was “very lost” and left asking “Is that it? Is there nothing else?”.

She was then introduced to the campaigning theatre group Lung, based in Barnsley.

Its production, titled Woodhill, uses pre-recorded voices of actors reading the words of family members while dancers perform on stage.

Linda and members of other Woodhill families have had regular meetings with the producers before and since the first tour.

She says she was “amazed” when she first saw the production.

In one powerful scene, the words of Linda and her daughter Carole recount a phone call from Chris the day before he died.

“Chris told me he was scared… Chris told me he was being threatened,” reverberates around a rehearsal room in east London where the cast are preparing.

“It is a very hard watch for me. It brings it all back,” Linda says later, fighting away tears.

In the phone call, Chris asked Linda to call the prison to raise concerns.

Linda says she did, but no record of it could be found when the time came for the inquest.