Alice Figueiredo, 22, died at Goodmayes Hospital, a mental health facility in London in 2015.
The mother of a young woman who died in a psychiatric hospital had warned staff that there would be a “fatality on the ward” weeks before she died, a court heard.
He faces trial at the Old Bailey alongside the North East London NHS Foundation Trust, which denies corporate manslaughter.The court heard that on 16 May 2015, Jane Figueiredo, wrote to her daughter’s psychiatrist, warning about a series of incidents where she had been able to harm herself, despite being on constant observations.
Duncan Atkinson KC for the prosecution told the jury there were many missed opportunities to take steps to prevent what happened to her.
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