Mum’s heartbreak after ‘bubbly’ daughter, 18, dies day after she was sent to hospital alone by care home

The mum of a ‘bubbly’ and ‘bright’ young woman has shared her heartbreak after she died - a day after she was taken away from her care home to a hospital by police.

Molly Partington, from Bury, was just 18 when she died on August 17 last year after leaving Stubble Bank care home alone for a walk and falling from a bridge, an inquest into her death heard.

The 18-year-old had moved from Cygnet Hospital Bury to Stubble Bank, a care home and specialist residential mental health service, in March of that year as part of a “step down” from the hospital with the aim of preparing her to move back home.

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Molly, who suffered with dissociation and PTSD, had been living at mental health units since 2018 following an overdose, the first day of a two-week inquest at Rochdale Coroner's Court heard. The day before her death Molly was taken to hospital by police for a wound thought to be self-inflicted, after initially “refusing” to go.

She was not accompanied by any staff from the care home, the inquest was told.

Speaking at the inquest on the first day of evidence, Molly’s mother Kelly Partington said her “heart broke” when she heard her daughter had been left at hospital with no one she knew other than police officers. Kelly said she woke at 5am on August 17 to a missed call from the care home that had come through at 11.30pm.

She said she rang the care home back immediately and was told there had been an incident, but given no further details, and Molly was taken to hospital but was now back. Kelly said she “could not understand” why she was not told that Molly needed to