A "kind and loving" son killed himself on a motorway after multiple, serious failings at a psychiatric hospital, an inquest jury concluded.
Wallasey man Michael Cooke, 30, was an inpatient at Springview Hospital in Bebington, Wirral, when he was allowed out unsupervised into the hospital grounds on August 16, 2019. At around 10.50am that morning, he was hit by a vehicle on the M53.
In the days leading up to his death, Michael had handed a box containing some sweets, beads and a note to a receptionist and asked for it to be passed to a family friend. The receptionist did not give this to any of his clinicians, despite the fact the note revealed his mental health was seriously deteriorating, and it later had to be recovered from clinical waste after his death.
