Christie Harnett, 17, and another woman took their own lives at separate hospitals in Middlesbrough.
A mental health trust has admitted failures in how it cared for two patients who took their own lives.
The Care Quality Commission prosecuted it for failing to provide safe care and treatment which exposed the pair to "significant risk of avoidable harm".Miss Harnett, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, took her own life at West Lane Hospital in June 2019. A total of 120 faults and failures in "care and service delivery" across a number of agencies were found over the treatment provided to them."That place was meant to keep her safe and meant to keep her from harming herself and possibly dying, and it was a place where she did actually die," her stepfather Michael Harnett told the BBC.
"To finally hear a guilty plea... it's them admitting that it's their fault that she's dead and that shouldn't be the case."Michael Harnett has continued to fight for his stepdaughter since her death"It has taken so long and I would have felt more comfortable if they could have held their hands up right at the start and said 'yes, we have made serious errors here'," she said.
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