Connor Sparrowhawk's brother Tom Speaks Out

The Oxford Mail reports that the brother of an Oxford teenager who died in the care of Southern Health has accused it of “childishness, deceitfulness and a lack of accountability” as pressure grows on its embattled bosses.

Tom Ryan, whose sibling Connor Sparrowhawk drowned in a bath during an epileptic fit, said in a blog online that the NHS mental health trust had treated his family “as a problem that they need to be rid of, instead of engaging with us and actually making a better care system”.

You can read the Oxford Mail story here.