A NORTH Wales mother warned warders her teenage son may try to kill himself in his cell.
 Just a day later Joseph Scholes was found hanging from a sheet tied to his window. A psychiatrist also raised fears the 16-year-old would be at risk if he was locked up, rather than sent to a special unit. Joseph's mother Yvonne from Meliden, near Prestatyn, yesterday told a coroner she believed her son was under close supervision, with TV cameras in his room. He had told her on the phone from Stoke Heath Young Offenders Institute he wanted to take his own life. He died nine days into a two-year term at the centre, at Market Drayton, Shropshire. Giving evidence to an inquest at Shrewsbury Magistrates' Court, Mrs Scholes said: "I told staff how concerned I was about him and the high risk he presented. I thought he was being given the highest level of care possible." The inquest heard Joseph was identified as vulnerable on his arrival at Stoke Heath and put in the health care unit. He was discovered hanging on March 24, 2002, and flown to North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary where he was pronounced dead. "At no time during his incarceration was I consulted about the level of observations that had been downgraded," Mrs Scholes, 44, added. "As far as I was concerned, he was sleeping in a room fitted with a surveillance camera and had been categorised as high risk. "At no time was I informed the health care unit he was being kept in was deemed unsuitable for holding children." | 
