A dad was killed by a hit-and-run driver after police left him barefoot three miles from his home.
03.09.2023 - 18:19 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
On the evening of February 24, 2022, Lindsey Bridges received the first of two phone calls which will haunt her forever.
Her daughter Lauren was on the line. A straight-A student, she was adored by her loved ones - kind, considerate and 'the most beautiful person inside and out'.
She wanted to go to university and dreamed of becoming a doctor or a nurse so she could help others. The bitter irony that, in her mother's words, she was 'horribly failed' by the mental health system is all too clear.
Lauren, 20, was autistic and had been diagnosed with a personality disorder. There were fears for her safety as her mental ill-heath worsened. Lauren was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Stockport.
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That facility was more than 250 miles away from her family in Bournemouth on England's south coast. Lauren was admitted to a secure psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) at The Priory's Cheadle Royal Hospital, during the later stages of the Covid pandemic in 2021.
It was her ninth stint in hospital in under four years. A number of those placements were a significant distance from home.
It was meant to be a short-term placement. Yet seven months later, she was still there. Lauren was distressed at being so far away from home for such a long time.
During the call to her mother, Lauren sobbed, begging and screaming for help. She wanted to leave the Stockport unit.
Hours later, Lindsey received another call. Lauren, she was told, had been found unconscious in her en suite bathroom. "As soon as I saw the phone ring in the middle of the night, I just knew something had happened to Lauren," she said.
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A dad was killed by a hit-and-run driver after police left him barefoot three miles from his home.
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