'I thought he was in a place of safety.' Newry woman Sinéad Boyle has 'unanswered questions' after her son Seán took his own life while in the care of a psychiatric unit at Craigavon Area Hospital, she tells BBCSpotlightNI
Seán Boyle, a music fan who was planning a career in farming, was 24 years old when he died after attempting suicide in June 2020.
She told BBC News NI's Spotlight programme that he had used drugs since he was a teenager and because of this had been in hospital many times. The programme has also seen a copy of an investigation report commissioned by the Southern Trust following his death, which happened at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Like Seán they had tried to use a window fixture, leading to such fixtures being changed in another part of the hospital, but not on Seán's ward.Speaking to Spotlight, Seán's mother, Sinéad, believes his death could have been prevented."I had a belief they had the answers, they had the expertise, they had what I didn't have to help him.
According to Southern Trust policy, Seán and other patients were supposed to be checked during every 15-minute period.These checks should be recorded to ensure patients are being properly cared for, but the report said it "could not be confident Seán was observed as prescribed within every 15-minute period as written on the observation sheet".
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