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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Steven Morris

Gaia Pope sexually harassed while on psychiatric ward, inquest jury told

Gaia Pope
Gaia Pope, 19, vanished from her hometown of Swanage and her body was found on a clifftop 11 days later. She is believed to have died of hypothermia. Photograph: Dorset Police/PA

The Dorset teenager Gaia Pope, who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after she was allegedly drugged and raped, was sexually harassed while being treated on a mixed psychiatric ward, an inquest jury has heard.

Pope informed staff that a male patient on the ward at St Ann’s hospital in Poole made explicit sexual comments and suggestions and tried to hug her but jurors were told that no safeguarding referral was made.

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