Traumatised by months of forced feeding and isolation from her family on a secure psychiatric ward, 14-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz fled her family home through a toilet window and flung herself into a freezing pond in a desperate attempt to get someone to listen.
“I'd rather die than go back to Huntercombe,” the teenager had warned just hours before her father Mark, dragged her from the icy water near their Berkshire home just after Christmas 2021.
