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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to amend the Coroner's Bill to ensure that inquests into the deaths of patients in mental health institutions are automatically heard before a jury in the same way as those following the deaths of prisoners in custody. More details
Submitted by Steven Allen – Deadline to sign up by: 31 January 2008 – Signatures: 138
More details from petition creator
Between 2001-2 and 2005-6 there were a total of 13,020 deaths of patients in mental health insitutions in England. A recent report of the Forum on the Prevention of Deaths in Custody showed that some 233 deaths were deemed to be preventable in the last reporting year, showing the need for full investigations into all deaths in mental health institutions.
Whilst all deaths in prisons are automatically heard before juries, due to the recognition that these deaths have happened on the 'state's watch', this is not automatically the case for investigations into deaths in mental health institutions, despite the fact that people with mental health difficulties are often extremely vulnerable.
It is vital that the state properly investigates every single death where the state might be involved and the jury system of inqusts ensures that a proper investigation takes place. The jury hearings must be extended to those investigating the deaths of people in mental health institutions.
Current signatories
Steven Allen, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Dick King
- S King
- Ben Parish
- Georg-Philipp
- John Dillon
- Alexander Deriziotis
- Kathy Southard
- DENIZ HUSSEIN
- ROBERT ANTHONY
- Neil McArthur
- Kathryn Becher
- James Martin Charlton
- Koonal Shah
- Patricia Costall
- d porter
- Raoul Fishman
- KATE O'MAHONEY
- Moira Kerr
- Kevin Munday
- Rob Bradley
- Jeanne Steele
- Stephanie Clifford
- Paul Goodway
- Marcela Richards
- Polly Burke
- Owen Blacker
- rebecca burke
- Kevin Cunningham
- Yve Reynolds
- H Davis
- Paras Shah
- N J Burrell
- Peter Rigsby
- Ryoko Harikae
- Sebastian Gonzalez-Agero
- Hugh Lavelle
- Andy Marshall
- Catherine Charnley
- louise gilbert
- Peter Burrell
- Carl Morson
- Mary Jamieson
- Jo Whitehouse
- Erika Tittaferrante
- Maggie Cashman
- Margaret Spavins
- Ruth Avery
- G Watson
- Mikey Powell Campaign
- Tippa Naphtali
- Pauline Campbell, mother of Sarah Campbell deceased
- Sally anne Lorenzo
- eleanor milton
- Saqib Deshmukh
- George Coombs
- John Cross
- Genea Waterson
- margaret gray
- Iain Cochran
- Rachael Haddon
- Deborah Davies
- Rachel Sara Bird
- Becky Derham
- jannene swaine
- Arj Subanandan
- Simon Ware
- L. Scully
- Owain Morgan Jones
- Georgiana Smith
- Kim Smith
- Jonathan Kerin
- Grmunu Cooray
- Judith East
- Caspar Aremi
- Jennifer Rogers
- Nisha Shah
- Helena Cullen
- Ayoush Lazikani
- Simon Bowden
- Carla Thompson, sister of Jason Thompson - died 01/11/04
- Koonal Shah
- Georgina Green
- CAROLINE BAILEY
- N V Rose
- Jocelyne Hemming
- Jessica Fenn
- C Whiteman
- Lyn Clarke
- lisa johnston
- Rampaul Chamba
- Jason Willis
- Philip Luff
- Peter Wakeford
- Kerry Barnes
- Dru Phillimore
- Miss Edwards
- Simon Assender
- Amy Whitelaw
- Laura Burke
- Karolina Ashton
- Brenda Williams
- SARAH SAUNTSON
- Vernon Lewis King
- peter stephan blackman
- Kim Roberts
- Sian Barlow
- Sabita Gurney-Branford
- catherine grummitt
- Sarah Airey
- Deborah Kemp
- susan routledge
- Claire Loveday
- Andrea Beard
- Lisa Rees
- Val McGuigan
- julie parker
- juliet beale
- Dee Speers, mother of Richard who died in August 2005
- Tanya Hubbard
- miranda morland bruised uk
- Elizabeth McBride
- Tina Coldham
- Chris Salter
- Richard Dobson
- Trevor Wright
- Siobhan Griggs
- Aurelien Tobie
- yvonne richardson sister of geoffrey hodgkins
- How appalling that so many died during those years! OF COURSE this should happen
- Natalie Aldred
- FRANCES SEERY
- Eileen Macland
- Roma Carter
- Ian Gillett
- kate magdalen allen
- Louise Murray
- Nathan Hardacre
