A TEENAGE prisoner in jail for stabbing his dad had completed some ‘distressing drawings’ prior to being found dead in his cell, a court has heard.

Anthony McNally was serving a four-year prison sentence in Aylesbury after stabbing his father multiple times at their home address in Leach Road in Bicester.

The 18-year-old was subsequently jailed in August 2020 after the violent outburst but was found dead in his Aylesbury prison cell only five months later.

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Emergency services attended the prison but he was declared dead the next day, January 8, 2021, at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

At Buckinghamshire coroner's court, a jury inquest is taking place into the cause of McNally’s death which is expected to finish on March 27.

The inquest has heard today that McNally had showed some signs of self-harming in prison and disclosed to a prison officer that he suffered from social anxiety.

Cian Murphy, who is representing McNally’s family during the inquest, told the inquest that as well as self-harming, the teenager had completed some ‘distressing’ drawings.

Speaking at the inquest, he asked prison officer Jordan Johnson, who was McNally’s key worker in Aylesbury, if he had been aware of the drawings.

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Looking at the drawings, which were not shown to the courtroom, Mr Johnson said: “I remember he used to like to draw however nothing like that I can recall.”

The prison officer added that he also couldn’t recall ‘too much’ about McNally’s self-harming and added there no were ‘no talks’ of suicide or suicidal thoughts.

A jury heard that McNally would self-harm ‘sometimes in frustration’ by ‘bumping his head everyone now and again’.

It was also heard that McNally had also swallowed an unknown amount of gastroenteritis pills which the prison was aware he had from his previous establishment.

The inquest continues.

McNally was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court after her pinned his father against the side of a bed and attacked him with a five-inch-long blade at the family home.

Using a wooden-handled knife, the attack was described as a 'hammering' of blows with McNally 'using all his strength' to injure his father.

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The incident came after he had made numerous threats towards his family in their home on February 10, 2020 - including telling his mother he would 'throw acid in her face' and shoot her with an air rifle.

He pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and Judge Peter Ross sentenced him to four years imprisonment, stating that McNally had 'lost his temper'.