Epstein had apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself with the bedsheet, a law enforcement source told the New York Post. Epstein had attempted to commit suicide a few weeks prior to his death.
The New York City medical examiner’s office said Sunday that it had completed an autopsy of the financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein but that it needed more information before determining the cause of death.
The former inmate said to The New York Post that there was no way any prisoner in that cell block could kill themselves.
Uzair Paracha was in the prison for two years until 2005 and said that the inmates in that block were given frequent strip searches and said the guards “monitored us like lab rats.”
“There’s no way that man could have killed himself. I’ve done too much time in those units. It’s an impossibility,” another inmate said.
“Between the floor and the ceiling is like eight or nine feet. There’s no way for you to connect to anything
“You have sheets, but they’re paper level, not strong enough. He was 200 pounds — it would never happen.
“When you’re on suicide watch, they put you in this white smock, a straight jacket. They know a person cannot be injurious to themselves,” the unnamed inmate said.
“Could he have done it from the bed? No sir. There’s a steel frame, but you can’t move it. There’s no light fixture. There’s no bars.
“They don’t give you enough in there that could successfully create an instrument of death. You want to write a letter, they give you rubber pens and maybe once a week a piece of paper,” he said.
“It’s my firm belief that Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide. It just didn’t happen,” the inmate said to end his op ed.
