Severely depressed and paralysed from the waist down, Niamh Buckell was forced to spend her final days washing herself with baby wipes and sleeping on a mattress on the floor because her psychiatric care unit was not equipped to deal with her disability.
The 21-year-old spent 10 months as an inpatient at Melbury Lodge, in Winchester, where she used a wheelchair and struggled with complex medical needs after suffering a spinal cord injury. She had been known to services for four years as she had a history of depression.
