Serious life ending Sexual assault on a stroke ward

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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?

Poor woman. RIP.

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

Also
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.

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.

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??

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

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.

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.

This is so, so awful! I am speechless.

Poor Valerie, what happened to her is absolutely sickening!

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.

I read that yesterday. I think it was worse. They weren't trying to cover up, they just didn't give a shit about what happened to this poor poor woman. No questions asked at all.

Heads should be rolling all over the place for this one

Do you remember the TRA plopper who was on here last week and accusing posters of "sexualising" care work when we said SSC is important to prevent patients from being assaulted.

I do...

This happened in 2018. Why has the inquest taken so long? The police should be forced to reopen the investigation.

This was really upsetting to read.

Any one of us or any of our female relatives could be Valerie should we suffer a stroke or other incapacitating medical condition. The poor woman was powerless and so vulnerable.

This beautiful woman, Valerie Kneale, so loved by her family who barely left her side while she was in that hospital. I will be writing to Wes Streeting. This shows just how unsafe hospitals are in this day and age. With all our cctv, security and monitoring. Surely the hospital should investigate all staff who had access in the short period. Everyone who had access to the ward should be investigated. If someone could do such a horrific assault they have probably previously done it and will go on doing it.

This is absolutely shocking and disgusting. And even worse the bloody staff are trying to cover it up! What the hell is wrong with people?

It seems she was fine and chatting in the evening. Next morning she had deteriorated and put on end of life care. Did nobody notice what must have been a huge blood loss, which soaked the mattress? Did nobody question how it had come about?

That's one of the most horrible things I've read for some time. Jesus Christ, the poor woman. I work in the NHS and it can be a brutalising system to work in but the complacency of those nurses is really something. I'm honestly stunned. I can't imagine how traumatised her family must be

This is absolutely disgraceful, how could this have happened? So awful for Valerie and her family, they all deserved better.

I agree. I think we should all be writing.

If you do mind, would you share the gist of what you write? Maybe if we write in a similar vein, it would have more impact? As someone who's dad has had a stroke, and I've had/ going to have surgery, this really scares me. Some of the stuff I saw in my dad stroke ward was horrific and that's even with them knowing my DH is a consultant in the same hospital.

What have I just read? This is so shocking I can’t get my head around it! Apart from the terrible sexual assault there is clear negligence on all sides, how is no one bearing any responsibility for this poor woman’s death! Her family must be besides themselves!

I think the delay in anyone noticing meant the cctv was wiped. I know in my work that it just keeps a rolling 7 days. Which is generally long enough if anything needs reviewed. If anyone had checked due to HCAs mentioning smell / bleeding. Then I assume it’d of been flagged that it wasn’t a normal haemorrhage.

Poor woman. I don’t know if the incompetence is complicit or negligent.

The police investigation should absolutely be reopened, with high priority, to prevent more deaths.

Someone got away with sexually assaulting and killing a patient in hospital. Very high likelihood that such an attacker has assaulted unconscious victims before and since, being a bit more careful about hiding the evidence.

Cold cases may be difficult, but everyone there at the time is under suspicion until this is solved.

This may be insensitive of me, but did no one provide any toileting care to this woman, during the time she was internally bleeding out? Surely if they had the blood would have been found. She appears to have had no physical contact with any care staff!

I think all the staff involved need to be charged with something to be honest.

I can hardly bear to read this report. This poor lady and her family have been failed so badly. It's unclear from the report whether the lady was on a ward or in a side room on the night when the incident took place. It beggars belief that nobody noticed anything untoward until it was too late to gather evidence. Inadequate staffing levels perhaps?