ESSEX-based TV producer and true crime podcast host Naomi Channell has spent the last six
months working with families, ex-patients and experts on a new podcast series looking into the
deaths of 2000 patients under Essex mental health services, now being investigated by
Baroness Lampard as part of a public inquiry.
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The inquiry is investigating deaths from the year 2000 until December 2023. With the inquiry now underway, the families of those who lost their lives whilst in the care of Essex Partnership University Trust and its predecessors, are telling their tragic and heartbreaking stories.
Some of the families still have no idea why their loved ones have died, and they are hoping this
inquiry will hold to account those who have repeatedly failed patients in their care. This series
addresses catastrophic failures like proven sexual assaults from staff on patients, the falsifying
of care plans after a patient has died, unexplained deaths in inpatient facilities and reviews
harrowing undercover footage from inside two mental health inpatient units in Essex. This
series has been made with the aim of giving grieving families a voice, advocate for change and
to be part of the campaign to prevent future deaths.
Families of these lost patients taking part in the series include those of:
Matthew Leahy, 20
Ben Morris, 20
Chris Nota, 19,
Dorris Smith, 76
Abbigail Smith, 26
Tillie-Anne King, 21
Joshua Leader, 35
Naomi is also the producer of ‘Real’ a weekly true crime podcast with over 4.5 million
downloads, and has produced podcast series on several high-profile crime cases, including the
death of Stuart Lubbock, missing people Claudia Lawrence and Charlene Downes and the
murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins. All can be found here: https://linktr.ee/realtruecrimepodcast
‘Investigating Essex: Dying To Be Saved’ is available to download for free on Spotify, Apple
Podcasts, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts on the 31st of July 2024.
NEW TEN-PART TRUE CRIME PODCAST SERIES LOOKS AT ESSEX
MENTAL HEALTH SCANDAL AND THE LAMPARD INQUIRY
RELEASED 31ST JULY 2024
Credit Your Harlow
