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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Nicole Wootton-Cane

Woman, 23, died after she was found unconscious in hospital toilet

The inquest into the death of a 23-year-old who was found unconscious in the toilet of a psychiatric hospital has resumed.

Stephanie Mullineux, 23, was discovered lying face down in a locked cubicle at Leigh Infirmary. She died the next day after her life support machine was switched off on February 8, 2016.

In 2019, Deborah Howard - the healthcare assistant who found Ms Mullineux - avoided jail for perverting the course of justice after it emerged Ms Mullineux was not given immediate medical treatment as she lay in the cubicle. Howard had previously stated that a nurse had treated Ms Mullineux at once.

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