How woman’s dramatic escape from psychiatric care exposed ‘scandal’ of sex abuse complaints
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Alexis Quinn entered psychiatric care after a family tragedy.
The former British youth swimmer and mother could never have imagined that her three-day admission would turn into a more than three-year ordeal.
Then undiagnosed with autism, Alexis descended to the darkest reaches of locked-in, psychiatric care, making complaints of sexual assault, before plotting a daring escape overseas.
Patient 11 – a new joint podcast from Sky News and The Independent – investigates her escape from psychiatric care, which has now exposed a catalogue of sexual abuse and harassment complaints in NHS England care.
Alexis’s actions would not only pit her against the police and some of the most powerful institutions in the state, but ultimately bring to light nearly 20,000 sexual abuse and harassment complaints across more than 30 NHS England mental health trusts.
The four-part podcast series is narrated by actor Nicholas Pinnock.
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