Report to warn of risk of patients self-harming after singer’s death at West Park Hospital in Darlington

A coroner will write to hospital bosses over his concerns about a ward where a talented singer died after her reference to killing herself was taken as a flippant comment.

Mina Topley-Bird, the 24-year-old daughter of trip-hop pioneer Tricky and the singer Martina Topley-Bird, was found dead on Elm Ward at West Park Hospital, Darlington, in May 2019.

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