Woman dies at hospital where three others lost their lives

20-YEAR-OLD WAS AT PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY AFTER BEING SECTIONED

- HELENA VESTY

AN inquest has been opened into the death of another young woman at a hospital where three women of a similar age died within weeks of one another.

Mental health blogger Beth Matthews, 26, Lauren Bridges, 20, and Deseree Fitzpatrick, 30, all died at the at Cheadle Royal Hospital, also known as the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal, last year.

The three deaths at the psychiatric hospital last year are not thought to be linked. They have now been followed by the death of 20-year-old Amina Ismail, who died at the hospital on September 15 there is also no current connection known between last year's deaths and that of Ms Ismail.

An inquest into Ms Ismail's opened on Wednesday, as loved ones have described her as the 'kindest, purest friend you could ever meet!

Ms Ismail died in one of the bedrooms on Pankhurst ward at the hospital, Stockport Coroners' Court heard.

At the time of her death, she had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act for a number of months, and was under observation every 15 minutes because of concerns about self-harm and ligature risk!

Ms Ismail was born on June 8, 2003, in Birmingham. She was unemployed at the time of her death 'due to mental incapacity, heard the court.

Alison Mutch, the senior coroner for Manchester south jurisdiction, said: "I think Amina was not normally a resident of Greater Manchester and had been placed at the Priory as an out-ofarea patient.

"Very sadly on the 15th of September at around half past three, she was found unresponsive.

"Police officers went to Pankhurst ward at Cheadle Royal and staff there confirmed [Ms Ismail's] identity to them. Police officers and police coroner's officers confirmed the identity and there are no concerns.