'Our daughter was unlawfully killed - but loophole means she won't get justice'

In the hospital which was supposed to help her, the last moments of 14-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz's life were recorded on CCTV.

The teenager, who should have been under constant supervision on the children's psychiatric ward, was left alone by her support worker at Taplow Manor Hospital in Berkshire. Fifteen minutes later, she had fatally self-harmed.

The worker assigned to her had only one-and-a-half days' training and had faked his identity using false documents.

Image: CCTV footage showed Ruth Szymankiewicz left alone

Earlier this month, a jury at the inquest into Ruth's death concluded she was unlawfully killed. Despite this, there have been no criminal prosecutions.

Speaking to Sky News and The Independent in their first TV interview, Ruth's father, Mark, said: "She went s