Two years after the preventable death in prison of Steven (Pepe) Dill, Government is maintaining a deafening silence on whether it plans a public inquiry into prison procedures.

An inquest jury found in October last year that Mr. Dill, 41, died at the Prison Farm in December 2001 due to a lack of timely medical attention after suffering a severe asthma attack.

Mr. Dill?s family immediately demanded a public inquiry into prison procedures to ensure that a similar incident does not happen again.

Public Safety Minister Randolph Horton said then that it would be premature to act on that request before the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had reviewed the report of the inquest and made a decision as to the next step.

That decision came last week with acting DPP Kulendra Ratneser saying it was not in the public interest to prosecute anyone in connection with Mr. Dill?s death but that he had made some other recommendations to the Governor.

But neither Governor Sir John Vereker, Mr. Horton or his permanent secretary Robert Horton, have returned calls seeking clarification on when or whether a decision will be made to hold a public inquiry.

?I reach out to the Dill family and feel for them in this difficult time,? Mr. Horton said in October last year.

?Like them, I want to see this come to closure, but until I have heard from the DPP, I think that will gauge what we should do next.?

Lee-Ann Samuels, Mr. Dill?s partner and mother of their two teenaged sons, has vowed not to let the matter rest until someone is held accountable.