Knowsley<\/a> Magistrates Court in Liverpool charged with possessing a bladed article in public.<\/p>\nAccording to his family, the incident that led to Lee being recalled was a case of attempted self harm.<\/p>\n
Ms Harvey said: \u201cThe police were called because he had cut himself with a pair of scissors. He needs to be in the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe judge has sentenced him to 16 weeks for carrying a bladed article in public, but then he’s gonna have to wait up to two years for a date with the parole board.\u201d<\/p>\n
His mother blames his repeated failure to be resettled on his ongoing mental health struggles and problems with his medication.<\/p>\n
Ms Harvey said: \u201cOnce he’s released, he’s still on a 99 year licence so if he does anything whatsoever he\u2019s back on recall.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got multiple personality disorders. In prison, he was on psychotic drugs to calm him down, to keep him safe. For six years, they worked. He kept his head down, taught other prisoners how to read and write. He\u2019s got a degree in psychology.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when he was out, they said it would take two years of assessments before he was actually given the right medication.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey let him down with everything the first time he was released. The second time, the medication wasn’t in place. This time, he had medication but only an anti-anxiety drug and something to help him sleep.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got in a fight when he was 18,\u201d she said, describing how her son has had serious mental health issues all his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can be a great lad who can be funny, kind and generous\u201d, she added, claiming her son just needs the right care and right medication.<\/p>\n
Recalling how her son had been moved around from one prison to another over the course of his sentence, she said: \u201cThey give them drugs to calm them down, then they give them drugs to keep them quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen they ship them out to another prison where he can\u2019t have the old drug so he has to go cold turkey. It\u2019s been on and off like this his whole life. He\u2019s been shipped from one to another about twenty times, going between twelve different prisons!\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee added: “It’s like they consistently want to play games with your mind. I’m just a shadow of my former self.”<\/p>\n
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “It is right that the IPP sentences were abolished. As the IPP annual report showed, we have improved support for these offenders, with greater access to rehabilitation and mental health support.<\/p>\n
“We will work to reduce the number of IPP offenders in custody, but only in a way that protects the public.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Ashby said he is “a shadow of my former self” after being jailed under the now-banned Imprisonment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,16182,179,16,15,8881],"class_list":{"0":"post-302730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-hmp-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wirral"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114939762146297819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Lee Ashby, from Wirral, has spent 20 years behind bars despite being given a 14-month sentence(Image: SWNS)<\/p>\n![\"Lee](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753841472_812_0_Indefinite-prison-sentences-are-barbaric-my-son-has-been-inside-for-20-years.jpg\")
Lee Ashby, from Wirral, said every day “feels like groundhog day”(Image: SWNS)<\/p>\n![\"Lee](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753841473_482_0_Indefinite-prison-sentences-are-barbaric-my-son-has-been-inside-for-20-years.jpg\")
Lee pictured with his mum, Denise Harvey(Image: SWNS)<\/p>\n