When Ruth Szymankiewicz’s family placed her in the care of Huntercombe Hospital they thought she would be safe. Months later, she was dead, as health correspondent Rebecca Thomas reports ...

Admitted to a psychiatric care unit for an eating disorder, Ruth Szymankiewicz was allegedly supposed to be under ...

The case of a teenager who was unlawfully killed after she was able to self-harm at a mental health hospital is "shocking", a government spokesperson said.

A 14-year-old girl was unlawfully killed while she was a patient on a children’s psychiatric ward, an inquest has concluded.

Fourteen-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz was supposed to be safe. She was in a psychiatric intensive care unit, admitted for treatment of an eating disorder and under orders for round-the-clock ...

Parents of Ruth Szymankiewicz have paid tribute to their daughter after an inquest into her death at a children's mental ...

Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, died after a litany of failings at Huntercombe Hospital, where she should have had constant ...

It was there that she was found unconscious shortly afterwards. She died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford two days ...

Hospital was ‘severely short-staffed’ on the day the teenager was left alone when she should have had constant care ...

The parents of a teenage girl who died after she was left alone in a children’s mental health ward by an inexperienced agency worker using fake ...

Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, should have been under constant watch at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire when she was left ...

Ruth died on 14 February 2022 after self-harming at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire, while she was supposed to be under ...