Alice Figueiredo died at Goodmayes Hospital, a mental health facility in east London in 2015.
A former health care assistant on a ward where a young woman took her own life using a bin bag has told a jury they continued to be used there after her death.
The North East London NHS Trust is accused of corporate manslaughter. The ward manager on the unit, Benjamin Aninakwa is accused of gross negligence manslaughter. Both deny the charges against them.Violet Storey told the jury at the Old Bailey that she had worked at NELFT in various roles at different sites since 2002.
When she had arrived at work, Ms Figueiredo had been in a "celebratory mood", and "bounded over" to hug her. She told the court she found Ms Figueiredo’s room empty. She searched the ward for her, eventually finding her slumped in a communal toilet.
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