Overview
- A judge at the Old Bailey fined the trust £565,000 and ordered £200,000 in costs for breaching health and safety duties linked to Alice Figueiredo’s death.
- Ward manager Benjamin Aninakwa received six months’ imprisonment suspended for 12 months and must complete 300 hours of unpaid work.
- Jurors found the trust guilty under section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act and Aninakwa guilty under section 7, while corporate and gross negligence manslaughter charges were cleared in June.
- The Met investigation identified failures to record self-harm, remove hazardous plastic items, maintain proper observation, and secure communal areas, allowing access to the area where Alice died.
- Alice’s mother condemned the ward as a “death trap” and called for change, while NELFT said the plastic items implicated in self-harm have since been removed.