21 February 201621 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Funding is welcome, but root causes of mental illness are growing

source: The Guardian
published: 19 February 2016

The impression is being created of unstoppable momentum towards expansion and improvement of mental health services. Reports, cash and pledges of action are piling up. But it is hard to identify what will change and from where the money will come. Meanwhile, the problems that give rise to mental illnesses are growing.

Hitting hyperbolic heights this week, NHS England promised “the biggest transformation of mental health care across the NHS in a generation”.

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30 January 201621 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Custody death man Thomas Orchard ‘restrained for 20 minutes’

source: BBC News
published: 22 January 2016

A man who suffered a fatal cardiac arrest had been restrained by police for over 20 minutes, a court has heard.

Thomas Orchard, 32, who had paranoid schizophrenia, was handcuffed, held down and had a large fabric webbing belt put across his face, jurors heard. He died in hospital seven days later.

Custody Sergeant Jan Kingshott, 44, and civilian detention officers Simon Tansley, 38, and Michael Marsden, 55, each deny two charges of manslaughter at Bristol Crown Court.

19 January 201621 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Toni Emma Speck death: Court blocks cell death review

all credits: BBC News
published: 12 January 2016

A woman whose daughter died in police custody has lost a High Court bid for a review of the inquest into the death. Toni Emma Speck, 31, of Huntington, was detained under the Mental Health Act at Fulford Road police station in York on 2 June 2011.

She was found slumped in her cell and died later in hospital. Her mother Maureen had wanted judges to review a coroner’s decision following the inquest jury’s narrative verdict in 2015.