Staff knew mental health patients ran away, claims father of man killed by train

Matthew Caseby was hit by a train in 2020, after absconding from the Priory hospital Woodbourne in Birmingham, inquest hears

The father of a 23-year-old who died after running away from a mental health hospital by jumping over a fence said staff knew patients regularly absconded.

Matthew Caseby died after being struck by a train in September 2020, having run away from the Priory hospital Woodbourne in Birmingham where he had been detained as a mental health patient.