Woman, 20, found unresponsive in bedroom at psychiatric ward with 'extensive self-harm wounds'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA young woman who 'loved to make people laugh' and dreamt of one day becoming a nurse was found 'unresponsive' by staff in her bedroom at a locked psychiatric unit, an inquest has heard.
Amina Ismail was found fatally injured in her room on the Pankhurst Ward, a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU), at Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal near Stockport on September 15 last year.
Emergency services attended the scene and attempted resuscitation, but she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. The 20-year-old, originally from Birmingham, had been detained as an out-of-area patient in the privately-owned Priory Group hospital under the Mental Health Act since August of 2022 - 13 months before she died. READ MORE The unsettling horror which unfolded on a street where they had 'no problems' The inquest heard that Amina had been known to mental health services since the age of 15, having been detained at a number of different mental health hospitals between 2019 and 2023.
Manchester South Coroner's Court heard how her struggles first began when a police investigation was launched into historic abuse she had suffered as a child.
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