Mixed messages.... any death is tragic but the headline seem to be an attempt to ellicit sympathy as if the system is at fault. Reading the subtext, it is full of contradictions... e.g. small and placid does not match the description of someone who has two sentences concurrent and was hiding a machine gun. Interestingly the BBC see fit to open with his nationality or 'origins' Pentonville Prison death: Victim Jamal Mahmoud was a young father Mahmoud, who was of Somalian origin, was attacked on the fifth floor landing of one of the prison wings, before being thrown over the railings, falling about 30ft (nine metres).The motive is not yet clear, although claims about a dispute between gangs or drug debts are being investigated. The motive is not yet clear, although claims about a dispute between gangs or drug debts are being investigated. Mahmoud was jailed for six years and six months in July as one of two gang members sentenced after hiding a loaded Skorpion machine gun and ammunition in a garden in Enfield the previous July. He was already serving five-and-a-half years in prison for a separate robbery. His friend, Danny Rynne, a scaffolder from Enfield, described him as "small" and "placid". "He's got a girlfriend who's just had a baby that was born two weeks ago. It's a shame what happened. I don't know too much about what it's about but it's a shock to everyone." Mr Rynne, who had himself just been released HMP Pentonville, described it as "a horrible place, not good at all".