We quit our jobs, sold our home twice and spent 10 years fighting for the truth

by Rebecca
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There didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary when Jane Figueiredo spoke to her daughter that night on the phone.

"Alice asked me to bring her some snacks for the next time we visited," Jane says. But that call, at 22:15 on 6 July 2015, was the last conversation they ever had.

Around three hours later, Jane and her husband, Max, were being driven to hospital in a police car at speed. They had been told their daughter was gravely ill.

Alice had got into a communal toilet at Goodmayes Hospital, in Ilford, east London, where she was a mental health patient, and taken her own life. She was just months away from her 23rd birthday.

On Monday, almost 10 years later, the North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), which runs the hospital, and Benjamin Aninakwa, the manager of the ward Alice was on, were found guilty of health and safety failings over her death.

The jury decided not enough was done by NELFT, or Aninakwa, to prevent Alice from killing herself.

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