Senior NHS nurse and trust charged with manslaughter after woman, 22, died at east London hospital
7 September 2023, 19:34 | Updated: 7 September 2023, 19:41
An NHS trust and a ward manager have been charged with manslaughter over the death of a 22-year-old woman who died in their care.
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Alice Figueiredo died while being treated at Goodmayes Hospital, a mental health facility in Redbridge, east London, in July 2015.
Police launched an investigation in April 2016 and handed over a file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service in March 2021.
Two and a half years later, the CPS gave the Met permission to charge ward manager Benjamin Aninakwa, 52, of Grays in Essex, and an offence under section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
A ward manager is a senior nurse who leads a ward and supervises nursing staff on it.
Police also charged the North East London NHS Foundation Trust with corporate manslaughter and an offence under section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Aninakwa and representatives of the hospital will appear at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, 4 October.
Ms Figueiredo's family are being kept abreast of the developments by the police.
