An NHS ward manager has been sentenced for health and safety failings over a decade after a young woman died in a secure mental health hospital.

Alice Figueiredo was 22 years old when she took her own life at London's Goodmayes Hospital in July 2015.

Earlier this year, a jury found the North East London NHS Foundation Trust and ward manager Benjamin Aninakwa did not do enough to prevent Figueiredo from taking her own life .

The decisions were reached after the joint-longest jury deliberation in English legal history.

On Tuesday, the trust was fined £565,000 over the health and safety breach - plus £200,000 costs.

Aninakwa, 54, of Grays in Essex, was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 12 months, plus 300 hours of unpaid work by Judge Richard Marks KC.

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