‘Squashed’ breathing tube may have caused teenager’s death, inquest hears

Lawyers for Jasmine Hill say tube was squashed by Gloucestershire hospital trolley but pathologist unable to ascertain cause of death

A teenager died after a breathing tube was possibly squashed by a wheel of her hospital trolley during emergency surgery, an inquest has heard.

Jasmine Hill, 19, had a cardiac arrest shortly after undergoing a procedure on her neck at Gloucestershire royal hospital in Gloucester.