A 16-year-old girl who died while she was an inpatient at a Nottinghamshire mental health hospital did not mean to take her own life, an inquest was told. Olivia Davina Joanne Gray had a lengthy history of self-harm and suicidal behaviour, which started when she was 14.
A coronial investigation into Olivia's death was opened on June 14, 2021, and concluded on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Simon Burge, Assistant Coroner for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, held a seven-day jury inquest, which concluded that Olivia died of ligature strangulation by way of misadventure. "We find that at the moment of self-ligation, Olivia did not intend to take her own life." Olivia, who was from Corby, Northamptonshire, was suffering from a range of mental and physical conditions which included PTSD, emotional dysregulation, epilepsy, psychosis, and type two diabetes.