NHS trust and worker deny manslaughter of mental health patient

A hospital worker and an NHS trust have both denied causing the death of a 22-year-old mental health patient after she allegedly gained access to items used in 18 earlier attempts to take her own life.

A second charge accuses him of failing to take reasonable care for the health and safety of patients on Hepworth Ward, which he also denied. According to the charges, ward manager Mr Aninakwa, of Grays, is accused of failing to take reasonable steps to remove a "means of suicide" or provide an "adequate level of care and supervision" for Ms Figueiredo.

It is alleged the trust failed to remove items from detained patients on an acute psychiatric ward in Redbridge, permitting them to be accessible to Ms Figueiredo on the ward where she was then detained.

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