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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

UNBELIEVABLE: Priory group charged with criminal offences over death of patient - Caught on Camera

Matthew Caseby Priory CQC Birmingham Mental Health NHS
Matthew Caseby.
Matthew Caseby had been sectioned as an NHS patient under the Mental Health Act after being found running along a railway line and telling doctors he was hearing voices. Photograph: Family handout/PA

The Priory healthcare group has been charged with two criminal offences over the death of a 23-year-old man who was hit by a train after absconding from a mental health hospital.

Matthew Caseby, a personal trainer from London, died in September 2020 after jumping over a low fence while unattended in a courtyard at the Priory Woodbourne hospital in Birmingham, three days after being admitted.

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