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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Entertainment
Neal Keeling & Kate Lally

Footage appears to show secure hospital staff tickling a murderer

Shocking footage appears to show staff at a secure mental health hospital tickling a convicted murderer.

Secret filming by BBC Panorama captured female employees at at the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich acting in what looked to be a sexualised manner towards male patients. One got on top of a patient, whom the programme said was a murderer, and tickled him.

The one-hour programme that aired on Wednesday captured apparent humiliation, verbal abuse, mocking and assault of patients - plus alleged falsification of medical paperwork.

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