{"id":645347,"date":"2026-06-18T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645347\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:29:09","slug":"muckamore-abbey-hospital-patients-abused-and-bullied-inquiry-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645347\/","title":{"rendered":"Muckamore Abbey Hospital: Patients abused and bullied, inquiry finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broken bones, black eyes and other bruisespublished at 12:43 BST<\/p>\n

12:43 BST<\/p>\n

The report lays bare the nature of the injuries the relatives saw on their loved ones, many of whom were “non-verbal”. Because of this establishing how an injury had been caused was often extremely difficult, the report explains. <\/p>\n

“Some patients will have caused injuries to themselves, to other patients and to members of staff,” it’s acknowledged. <\/p>\n

However when abuse was seen on CCTV many relatives “understandably thought the worst and realised the possibility that at least some of the injuries seen upon the patients were a sign of deliberate abuse by staff”.<\/p>\n

\"Muckamore<\/p>\n

Some relatives commented that patients seemed to receive injuries such as broken bones, black eyes and other bruises at the facility that they had never suffered at home.<\/p>\n

There was evidence about “bruises, unexplained marks and signs consistent with physical abuse”.<\/p>\n

Families saw “bruising to arms, legs, faces and torsos, including what appeared to be grip marks, finger bruises and injuries appearing in clusters”.<\/p>\n

“Relatives reported being informed by staff that injuries were caused by self-harm, behavioural incidents or peer-on-peer violence.”<\/p>\n

They were told their relative was “clumsy or may have fallen in the night”.<\/p>\n

The report says many families lost confidence in these explanations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broken bones, black eyes and other bruisespublished at 12:43 BST 12:43 BST The report lays bare the nature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}