I'm another who hopes the press will drop the story quickly so we can stop seeing him and the families aren't dragged more through this - but I also think that's not a realistic expectation.
I find the idea of a prison system so overstretched and underfunded that one prisoner can kill another completely shocking.
I agree that it's a sad state of affairs that this not only appears to have not been difficult for his murderer to do this, but it's also widely treated as inevitable.
I struggle to see it as shocking at all though - successive governments have stripped the MoJ of resources (not just funding, but selling of sites) and pushed for privatization of the prison and other parts of the justice system, just as they've done in many other government departments. There are also the issues that recruitment is incredibly difficult even with staffing cuts, and pretty much anyone I talk to whose been around this for a while talks about how stripped back the training is compared to how it was previously. Some say this is why we're seeing a significant increase in prison officers ending up in the dock, though it's likely one of many factors.
While some were hoping the most recent Leveson inquiry would bring the issues into the MoJ into full light, it's mostly been distracted away with recommendations to reduce which cases can have a jury, and ignored most of the rest. We know that MoJ staff as a whole, prison and otherwise, are paid thousands less than the same grade in other departments (the gap is most often compared to the higher paid HMRC). A member of court staff was badly attacked in last autumn near where I am, and the reaction I saw was mealy mouth words from higher ups about increasing security that's never been mentioned again and a general treatment that 'well this happens, staff just have to keep themselves safe', ignoring the contradiction when things like outdoor lighting failing leads to recommendations to just carry torches or that mobile security alarms to call security for public facing staff aren't being replaced, and instead they gave the staff most at risk those £2 panic alarms...
Thankfully most people don't have to think about the work of the MoJ, some throughout their entire lives. That makes it easier for governments to strip and more difficult for those who work there and those who need it to push for the changes we need. As a pp said - prison reform doesn't win votes - I think that' true of the MoJ reform as a whole. I don't think an event like this will spark enough to change that, I don't think I can even imagine what sort of event would be needed to get the public to push for the government to take accountability and make the changes needed to keep anyone in it safe.