A mental health nurse failed to check on a patient she held a ‘grudge’ against for almost half an hour before she took her own life.
Laurence Tchapong, 54, should have carried out observations every five minutes on Amy Barber, 22, at the Brooklands psychiatric intensive care unit at Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral.
But Liverpool Crown Court heard that the nurse resented Ms Barber for complaining about her sleeping on the job and had not checked on her for 25 minutes.
How many have to die?
