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Health boss apologises to heartbroken mother after her son, 24, who ran away from carer on walk to the shops dies

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A health chief has apologised to the family of a mentally ill young man for a series of failings in his care before he died.

Sam Copestick, 24, died at Oldham Royal Infirmary three days after attempting to kill himself in May 2019, a Rochdale inquest jury has heard.

Sam, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, ran away while out on a walk to the shops. He was being escorted by a carer from Birch Hill Hospital's Prospect Place facility in Wardle, where he had been a long-term patient under the Mental Health Act.

He was discovered in a critical condition shortly later on Bank Farm Lane, about a mile-and-a-half from the hospital. Ambulance crews arrived quickly and started CPR and he was taken to the Royal Oldham Hospital but died three days

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