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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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EmeraldShamrock000 · 10/10/2026 15:52

MarieDeGournay · 10/10/2026 14:37

This case is complicated. There were very big protests at the time, it was a huge news story, and the university were condemned for not supporting the student to complete her course - which was later found to be not the case.
In the end, the uni applied to have the facts of the case made public, because there were all sorts of claims being made about them which turned out not to be true.

It was the student who took the university to court and not vice versa, and the university won, the High Court dismissed all the student's allegations.
The uni were found to have gone out of their way to support her and enable her to catch up with the work she had not submitted, and resit her exams, but she refused.
She initially appealed the High Court decision, but withdrew her appeal.

She was later arrested because some of the documents she submitted to the uni appear to have been fraudulent, she was released, but the case is still being investigated.
The police are still trying to trace the origin of the photos which were circulated a year after the rape, so there's lots of forensics still being done on those.

There are still a lot of unanswered questions, including whether or not the alleged rapist was a medical student who has now graduated, and whether or not there is a 'Doctor Rape' out there.

The professor's in the University saw the footage, a lot of staff saw the footage without reporting it. Men covering for men, those from the likes of Park Avenue all the way to the men sleeping on a park bench.
The protesting is forgotten, sexual violence in educational settings is on the up.
Her life is ruined.

mrshoho · 10/10/2026 22:57

MrsOvertonsWindow · 09/10/2026 14:45

Finally the police have investigated the stream of abuse / rape / safeguarding scandals at this hospital and are considering manslaughter charges

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16196111/Manslaughter-probe-four-stroke-patients-died-scandal-hit-unit.html

Police are considering manslaughter charges for 4 deaths plus investigating a further 6 deaths that took place in this unit. How could all this have happened under the noses of those running the hospital? Should be corporate manslaughter charges as well as individual staff being charged in this case. My heart goes out to all the victims and their families.

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EmeraldShamrock000 · 10/10/2026 23:22

mrshoho · 10/10/2026 22:57

Police are considering manslaughter charges for 4 deaths plus investigating a further 6 deaths that took place in this unit. How could all this have happened under the noses of those running the hospital? Should be corporate manslaughter charges as well as individual staff being charged in this case. My heart goes out to all the victims and their families.

You would have to wonder how this goes on.
I can’t imagine the pain the family has experienced to think about your mother being sexually assaulted in a place where she should be cared for.
It is horrifying.
So ten victims suspected? 😳

EvelynBeatrice · 11/10/2026 10:39

An NHS doctor friend commented sadly to
me recently that there is one area in which the NHS is indeed world leading - cover ups.

Timbrelltime · 12/10/2026 15:06

EvelynBeatrice · 11/10/2026 10:39

An NHS doctor friend commented sadly to
me recently that there is one area in which the NHS is indeed world leading - cover ups.

Yes; I have personal experience of abusive behaviour but could not pursue action as the PALS people were also protecting the abusers...there is nowhere else to go , especially at such a vulnerable time.
The cronyism and bullying within NHS Trusts has to be experienced to be believed. It is rife and perpetuated by intentionally blind senior management.

Spidey66 · 12/10/2026 15:46

i know the ward was thoroughly investigated and several of the nurses were arrested and/or struck off the register. I know that’s not consolation for this poor woman as that still hasn’t been investigated properly.

they clearly had awful staff.

Matthew Pover for one sounds a charmer.

https://share.google/nntdw4Rws3lcfASCO

Spidey66 · 12/10/2026 15:48

Then there’s this…..

https://share.google/bZw5iEl0t1YCXLze3

Spidey66 · 12/10/2026 15:51

And more……
https://share.google/41dJyETxmxTVdGQNv

im a nurse. It’s awful that such people have been in the profession.

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