Today's hearing marked what would have been Charlie's 21st birthday, with the coroner telling his family, 'I imagine it’s difficult every day, but I can’t imagine how difficult it was today'
The inquest into the tragic death of Charlie Millers continued today – what would have been his 21st birthday. The court heard how the mental health ward Charlie was staying on was ‘visibly chaotic’ and documentation failed to be completed correctly on the evening he was fatally injured.
READ MORE: Teen Charlie Millers died after treatment on short-staffed mental health ward, inquest told After working during the day, Ms Kareem-Adekunle and other managers decided that she would go home for a few hours on December 2 before returning to fill the lead nurse night shift, having previously been a nurse in charge earlier in her career.
One bank support worker who was working at the unit that night, Robert Clifton, gave evidence saying: “On entering the ward, it was visibly chaotic, there was no organisation.” But there was documentation about Charlie’s observations that had not been filled in correctly by Ms Kareem-Adekunle, heard the court. Staff members’ names were listed as having done the checks, when those checks had in fact been completed by others.
Members of the jury questioned whether Charlie should have been raised from five-minute observations to constant monitoring after the three ligature incidents before the fatal injury on December 2. But staff said that decision to raise the observations was not taken because he did not respond well to increased scrutiny which could have only worsened his mental condition, heard the court.
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