Overview
- Alice Figueiredo, 22, died by suicide at Goodmayes Hospital in 2015 after multiple self-harm attempts, with jurors finding insufficient preventive action by the trust and the ward manager.
- The North East London NHS Trust was acquitted of corporate manslaughter and Benjamin Aninakwa was cleared of gross negligence manslaughter, but both were convicted of health and safety breaches.
- Sentencing for the trust and the former ward manager is due on 11 November following this year’s verdicts.
- Leaked documents cited by the BBC say another young woman attempted to harm herself in strikingly similar circumstances four months after Alice’s death.
- The trust issued an apology and said it has strengthened staffing support, record-keeping and case management, as presenters introduced the segment with a viewer warning due to distressing content.