An inquest has heard that staff were asleep when a patient was strangled and killed on an NHS mental health ward in east London.
The hearing was told that Rolando Torres-Pena, 22, was able to attack Hugo Flint-Cahan on a hospital ward. The source material states that Torres-Pena strangled and killed Mr Flint-Cahan while on the ward.
The case concerns events at a mental health unit run within the NHS in east London. The inquest evidence focused on how Torres-Pena was able to kill Mr Flint-Cahan in that setting, and on the role of staff supervision at the time.
According to the material supplied, staff were sleeping while the fatal incident took place. No further details were provided about the identity of the unit, the date of the death, the number of staff involved, or any disciplinary or organisational response.
The latest known position is that the matter has been examined at an inquest, where the circumstances of Mr Flint-Cahan’s death and the conditions on the ward were being considered.
