Hospital worker who left suicidal girl alone ‘had fake ID and fled UK after she died’

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Ruth Szymankiewiczat died after she was left alone at Huntercombe Hospital despite requiring constant one-to-one observation, jurors at the inquest were told

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An agency care worker who failed to supervise a suicidal teenage girl at a scandal-hit mental health hospital was working under a fake ID and fled the country shortly after she died, an inquest has been told.