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Serious life ending Sexual assault on a stroke ward

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mrshoho · 04/09/2025 09:44

Stroke 'played no part' in Blackpool hospital patient's death - BBC News https://share.google/E1kG2EjcGHJWiPXvA

Omfg. This is just horrendous. This poor woman. Bled to death on a stroke ward following a sexual assault on the ward. What on earth?

Valerie Kneale, with shoulder-length grey curly hair, wears a pink, lilac and green floral blouse as she is photographed in a garden. She is standing in front of a pebble-dashed house with a white plastic door and windows.

Stroke 'played no part' in Blackpool hospital patient's death

Valerie Kneale's inquest is told she died because of a "forcible sexual assault" while in hospital.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9neq9e7qqo

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AnnaQuayInTheUk · 04/09/2025 09:56

I feel so upset and angry reading that. That poor, poor woman and her family.

Without forensic evidence, even if there is strong suspicion of who murdered her, it would be almost impossible to secure a conviction.

CohensDiamondTeeth · 04/09/2025 09:56

ShesTheAlbatross · 04/09/2025 09:53

What on earth happened?

The pathologist said the injuries were akin to a road traffic accident, but hospital staff thought she’d just deteriorated after the stroke??

This is so, so awful! I am speechless.

Poor Valerie, what happened to her is absolutely sickening!

pontefractals · 04/09/2025 09:55

Fucking hell. Of all the horrific and enraging things I've read on this board, this one has really upset me. Possibly partly because my Dad died following a stroke and I know exactly how vulnerable he was. I wish I couldn't believe either that there are people in the world as evil and calculating as the perpetrator, or that hospital staff would be so... "oh how sad never mind" about the death of a patient that nobody investigated and so all the evidence has been lost.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 04/09/2025 09:55

Jesus christ.
It reads as though staff actively tried to cover up what had happened. That surely cant be the case but it reads like they closed ranks.

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mrshoho · 04/09/2025 09:55

The ward should have been closed. The entire hospital even. How can this just be swept under the carpet?

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ShesTheAlbatross · 04/09/2025 09:53

What on earth happened?

The pathologist said the injuries were akin to a road traffic accident, but hospital staff thought she’d just deteriorated after the stroke??

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mrshoho · 04/09/2025 09:53

The murder investigation has been closed because of lack of evidence. FFS! So the perpetrator is still walking around. Is he a staff member? A patient? What the actual fuck.

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KeepTalkingBeth · 04/09/2025 09:51

Bloody hell. So many things went wrong there and staff are doing the equivalent of a shrug.

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Det Ch Insp Riley said the murder investigation had concluded with "all possible lines of inquiry" failing to identify who may have been responsible for attacking Mrs Kneale
Bollocks. How can such a severe sexual assault happen in a hospital ward without anyone seeing, hearing or noticing anything suspicious? No cctv?? All within the context of allegations of mistreatment in the ward.

flightissue · 04/09/2025 09:50

Poor woman. RIP.

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