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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
John Siddle

Doctor faked strangling nurse at hospital that failed teen patient who hanged herself

A doctor has been disciplined for pretending to strangle a nurse with an apron at a hospital ruled to have failed a teen patient who hanged herself.

Just weeks after the insensitive prank, the Priory-owned clinic was fined £300,000 over the suicide of 14-year-old Amy El-Keria.

A tribunal into the doctor’s actions heard how Ruvini Senasinghe had put a pinny around a nurse’s neck and shouted: “I am going to strangle you.”

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