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Dec 7, 2004 19:36:41 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Dec 7, 2004 19:36:41 GMT -5
An investigation has been launched after a woman's body lay undiscovered in toilets at a three-star hospital for two days.
The woman, who is thought to have taken an overdose, was found at Solihull Hospital in the West Midlands on November 11 but details have just emerged.
She was found by workmen as they carried out repairs on a cubicle.
The hospital, part of the Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust, has been under increasing scrutiny because of the standard of cleaning there.
Official figures released earlier this year found it had one of the worst MRSA infection rates for general hospitals in England.
Contract cleaners at Heartlands recently threatened strike action over pay until a new deal with bosses was agreed.
In a statement, the trust said: "We can confirm that a body of a former patient, who had discharged herself during treatment, was found in a room which had been locked from the inside.
"At the time the patient discharged herself, staff contacted the police as they were concerned and wanted her to return to continue treatment."
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
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Dec 8, 2004 18:19:03 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Dec 8, 2004 18:19:03 GMT -5
The body of a missing teenager has been discovered close to his home, police said today.
Daniel Stratford, 19, of Cowleaze, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, had last been seen in a pub shortly before midnight on Saturday and his family raised the alarm when he failed to return.
Dog and helicopter teams mounted a search in the area and officers confirmed that his corpse was discovered in Hill Road, Chinnor earlier today.
“The body of a man found today has been formally identified as Daniel Stratford,” said a Thames Valley Police spokeswoman.
“His death is not being treated as suspicious.”<br> It is not yet known how Daniel died or where he went after leaving the Golden Cross Pub, in Saunderton, near Princes Risborough.
The spokeswoman said that a post mortem will be carried out tomorrow.
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Jan 7, 2005 19:07:40 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Jan 7, 2005 19:07:40 GMT -5
Detectives investigating the disappearance of a student in the early hours of New Year’s Day were tonight searching an area of woodland after a woman’s body was discovered.
Sally Geeson, 22, a forensic science student at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge, vanished in the early hours of New Year’s Day after celebrating the start of 2005 at a pub in the city centre.
Police said the body was found this afternoon in an area of woodland at Madingley, about three miles from the centre of Cambridge.
Detective Superintendent Garry Swain, who is leading the investigation, said forensic scientists and a pathologist were at the scene of the discovery, but could give no further details.
He said Miss Geeson’s family, who live in Southend, Essex, had been told of the discovery.
Miss Geeson, who shared a student house with friends in Cambridge, had been celebrating the New Year at The Avery pub prior to her disappearance.
A number of text messages were sent to her friends from her mobile phone between 1.30am and 2am on January 1.
One text said she was getting into a car with “someone”. A second asked for “help”.
Earlier today, Miss Geeson’s family had made the latest in a number of public appeals for information about her disappearance.
Her identical twin Julie posed for photographs outside The Avery in the hope of jogging the memory of potential witnesses.
The body was found a few hundred yards from a military cemetery which houses the remains of American airmen who died during the Second World War.
Police would not say exactly when the body was discovered or by whom.
Officers said it had not yet been positively identified.
The area around where the body was discovered tonight remained cordoned off by police.
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Feb 12, 2005 13:31:45 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Feb 12, 2005 13:31:45 GMT -5
Police hunting a teenager who has been missing for almost four weeks after disappearing on a night out with friends today found a body in a river.
The discovery was made in the River Great Ouse on the outskirts of Bedford.
A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said tonight that the family of missing teenager Tom Potter were being kept informed about the find but stressed the person has yet to be identified.
He said: “Bedfordshire Police were called by a member of the public to the river behind the Ouse Valley Golf Club where a body was discovered in the water.
“Officers are recovering the body at the moment but stress no identification of the person has been made.
“The family of missing teenager Tom Potter have been informed of the discovery and as soon as the person has been identified we will release this information to the public. This may take some time as dental evidence or DNA may have to be used.”<br> Tom, 18, went missing in the early hours of Saturday January 19 after leaving Bedford’s Oxygen nightclub.
CCTV footage has shown him being escorted out of the club, leaving friends inside, after apparently being sick.
They had planned to go home with him but he went off alone.
It is thought Tom tried to walk the four miles back to his home in the village of Bromham.
The friends heard from him twice from his mobile phone in the next hour – in his first call he said he was in the centre of Bedford while in a second call he said he was in the village of Oakley about two miles away.
Volunteers, friends and neighbours of Mr Potter, from Mowbray Close, joined police looking for him.
Specialist tracker dogs and sonar teams scoured the area, including the river, but failed to find the trainee carpenter.
Dogs traced his scent across the golf course but lost trace at a bridge over the river.
A post-mortem examination and identification checks are to be carried out on the body over the weekend.
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Feb 15, 2005 9:32:58 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Feb 15, 2005 9:32:58 GMT -5
The body of a missing teenage girl found at a disused warehouse was identified by detectives today.
Ice hockey fan Katie Baxter, 18, disappeared after leaving a party at her sister’s home in Nottingham last December.
Police discovered her body on Friday and revealed today that they were treating the death as suspicious.
The keen Nottingham Panthers fan, who was last seen in the city centre, was found dead in the building used by homeless people just off London Road.
Detective Inspector Adrian Morgan, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Katie was last seen leaving her sister’s house in West Bridgeford, although she was also seen in the city centre around the end of December last year.
“We know that she associated with the homeless community within Nottingham.
“The scene where her body was found is often frequented by the homeless community and people sleeping rough in that area. We need to speak to these people as they may have some information vital to the inquiry.
“We also want to hear from anyone who may have seen Katie over the last couple of months, or who knew who she was with or where she has been.”<br> The body was found at about 1.50pm in the area behind Hooters nightclub and Holmes Place sports centre.
A post mortem examination was carried out by a Home Office pathologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary but further tests are still under way to establish the cause of death.
Forensic examinations of the scene have been carried out and officers were conducting house to house inquiries in the area today.
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