R. Kelly rushed to hospital after prison incident, lawyers claim officials are ‘seeking to kill’ him

Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly was hospitalized final week after overdosing on treatment that jail employees gave him, his legal professionals mentioned.

In a courtroom movement filed Monday, Kelly’s legal professionals claimed jail employees gave him an overdose of his anxiousness and sleep drugs whereas he was in solitary confinement.

Kelly is serving a 30-year sentence in North Carolina for racketeering and intercourse trafficking. He was moved to solitary confinement earlier in June, in accordance with the movement.

His legal professionals mentioned that after the overdose, the singer was taken to a hospital, and he was there for 2 days earlier than he was faraway from the hospital and introduced again to jail towards medical recommendation. In accordance with Kelly’s legal professionals, the singer was set for surgical procedure for blood clots in his lungs, including that with out the surgical procedure, he may die.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons didn’t touch upon the incident, citing pending litigation, CNN reported.

Kelly’s legal professionals declare the 58-year-old is just not secure in jail and are asking {that a} decide transfer him from the North Carolina jail the place he’s serving his sentences to residence detention.

“Mr. Kelly’s life is in peril and the menace comes from Bureau of Prisons officers whose responsibility is to guard him,” lawyer Beau Brindley wrote within the courtroom movement.

Brindley alleged the federal Bureau of Prisons is “in search of to kill” the singer “to cowl up crimes dedicated within the investigation of his case.”

Brindley had claimed earlier in June that jail officers recruited a white supremacist to kill Kelly.