`Delay' in search for tragic patients.A search for three psychiatric patients - who died together in a cliff plunge - was delayed because a police phone line was engaged, an inquest inquest, in law, a body of men appointed by law to inquire into certain matters. The term also refers to the inquiry itself as well as to the findings of the inquiry. heard yesterday. The missing patients procedure to look for the trio was launched around 4pm on June 12, 2002, around two-and-a-quarter hours after they left the Cedars Unit at Wonford Hospital in Exeter, Devon. But a member of the nursing staff trying to get through to alert the police said the line was "constantly engaged," the inquest in Exeter was told. Gary Rees, deputy to the unit's clinical nurse leader Margaret Manley, told the inquest the staff member was "having difficulty getting through" to the police. The three - all informal patients - were found dead at the foot of 200ft cliffs at Sidmouth, Devon, later that day. They were Anne Harris Anne Harris, (b.25 August 1947), is deputy editor of the Sunday Independent. Her daughter Constance Harris writes for the newspaper as a fashion writer. Mary Ellen Synon, writing in the Daily Irish Mail alleged that Anne Harris had written an article justifying the 1972 Aldershot , 29, from Tiverton, Devon; Jamie Hague, 19, from Cullompton, Devon, and Sean Sheppard, 17, from Upton Pyne Upton Pyne is a location north of Cowley and west of Stoke Canon in Devon, United Kingdom. History The manor came into the possession of the Pyne family during the reign of Henry I (1100-1135) when Herbert de Pine took over the land. , Devon. The inquest continues. |
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