A HEARTBROKEN family discovered their son dead after he was treated at a hospital "worse than prison" and "banned from stepping outside". David Alan Thornton, 45, tragically took his own life after staying at the Royal Blackburn Hospital, Lancashire , to seek help with mental health. His family had made plans to take him out for lunch, but he chose not to go.
They sadly discovered him dead at their home when they got back later in the afternoon. David's devastated family have now slammed the NHS teaching hospital he received treatment at and claimed it's "worse than prison". It comes as a coroner concluded there was inadequate communication and documentation during David's treatment, as reported by Lancashire Live .
An inquest heard coroner Kate Bisset criticise the "toing and froing" David had to endure between several mental health hospitals. She determined "David had acted impulsively" in taking his own life, but also found his experience of services provided "was not as it should have been". David was an outdoors lover who often went fishing to help boost his mental health.
When he had been treated at a unit in the former Calderstones, in Whalley, David thrived due to a large garden. Most read in Health But he spiralled when moved to the Royal Blackburn Hospital. A statement by David's parents Linda and Alan was read to the inquest in which they wrote: "His family couldn't understand why he had been moved, he wasn't well enough to agree to it or to challenge it.
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