'I want accountability for my daughter's death'

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A Staffordshire parent whose "lovely, caring" girl killed herself wrong months of being discharged from a intelligence wellness installation said she prayed a nationalist enquiry would bring change.

On Monday, Baroness Lampard volition begin to analyse the deaths of radical receiving intelligence wellness inpatient attraction successful Essex betwixt 2000 and 2023.

The enquiry volition analyse the deaths of astir 2,000 patients, including mother-of-four Marion Turner who was recovered dormant successful January 2013.

Mum Martha Gaskell, from Stoke-on-Trent, said: "I'd similar to see... accountability for what the failings were".

An inquest into Ms Turner's decease concluded she had taken her ain beingness astatine location portion suffering from a diagnosed intelligence illness.

The 40-year-old had been discharged from The Lakes intelligence wellness installation successful Colchester successful October 2012.

Following Ms Turner's death, the past elder coroner for Essex Caroline Beasley-Murray said she was acrophobic determination was a hazard of aboriginal deaths if enactment was not taken.

Ms Gaskell, 68, said she had been "begging" for her girl to beryllium taken into infirmary earlier she died.

Speaking up of the inquiry, Ms Gaskell said she hoped it would mean "anybody other that has to spell done the intelligence wellness strategy volition not beryllium fto down".

The mother, who present works arsenic a counsellor, said she planned to springiness evidence, which she described arsenic "nerve-wracking".

She explained her girl had ever struggled with her intelligence health.

"She was a precise lovely, caring person," she said. "A precise bully mother, she loved her children to death."

"I conscionable anticipation and commune that we get the answers we request and they change, due to the fact that it's truthful needed."

Paul Scott, Chief Executive of Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT), said: "We cognize however achy this clip volition beryllium for those who person mislaid loved ones and our thoughts are with them.

"We volition proceed to bash each we tin to enactment Baroness Lampard and her squad to supply the answers that patients, families and carers are seeking."

The enquiry is to beryllium held successful Chelmsford.

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