The Independent By Rebecca Thomas
An agency care worker who failed to supervise a suicidal teenage girl at a scandal-hit mental health hospital was working under a fake ID and fled the country shortly after she died, an inquest has heard.
Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, died after she was left alone at Huntercombe Hospital, near Maidenhead in Berkshire, despite requiring constant one-to-one observation, jurors at the inquest were told.
The hearing was told that the support worker who had been responsible for monitoring Ruth had only gone through a day or a day and a half of online training before his first shift at the children’s psychiatric hospital on 12 February 2022…
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