A Labour MP has revealed his autistic daughter’s “horrendous” experience at the hands of staff at a children’s mental health hospital where a teenage girl was unlawfully killed months earlier.
Richard Quigley, the MP for Isle of Wight West, described how his “screaming” 15-year-old daughter was “wrestled” away from their parents when they arrived at Taplow Manor, formerly known as Huntercombe Hospital Maidenhead, in May 2022 – an incident which he claims marked the start of “over-reliance” on restraint and force feeding during their six-month stay at the unit.
