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PRIVATE mental healthcare firm the Priory Group is facing a multimillion-pound fine for breaching health and safety laws after a 14-year-old girl died in its care, Brighton magistrates’ court heard today.
The Priory Group pleaded guilty to health and safety charges following the death of Amy El-Keria in 2012.
She was an NHS-funded patient in a specialist children’s unit at Ticehurst House in East Sussex, a private psychiatric hospital run by the Priory Group.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
