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Girl, 12, who died at children's psychiatric unit was failed on multiple levels, inquest finds
The inquest found failures in care at the Becton Centre and identified autoimmune encephalitis as the cause of Mia Lucas's acute psychosis and death.
- On January 2024, Mia Lucas, 12-year-old child, died at the Becton Centre and the inquest jury at Sheffield Coroner's Court found she was failed on multiple levels.
- Professor Marta Cohen, pathologist, linked Mia's death to 'compression of the neck' caused by 'acute psychosis' from 'autoimmune encephalitis', a 'complex and rare' condition confirmed after her death.
- After assessment at the Queen's Medical Centre, she was sectioned during an acute psychotic episode after trying to get knives, fighting her mother, and hearing voices and hallucinations.
- Chloe Hayes told Sky News 'I'd have known the truth I wouldn't have left Mia there.' and said she was unhappy with supervision, with helplines listed including 0300 102 1234, 111, and 116 123.
- The inquest's findings suggest multiple care failures and a missed autoimmune encephalitis diagnosis, raising concerns about clinical assessment and safeguarding in Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust psychiatric units.
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