Prisoner’s claim for damages for psychiatric harm

A claim for damages by a prisoner for psychiatric harm, alleging that he himself was in a depressive and suicidal condition and suffered injury as a result of being incarcerated by prison authorities with a fellow prisoner known to be a suicide risk, whose body following his suicide was found by the claimant and whose death a prison officer blamed on the claimant, could be made since the question to be determined was whether the facts were sufficient to show the authorities owed him a duty to take reasonable steps to prevent him suffering harm.