[ I Teresa Cooper, was rushed to A&E unconscious in April 2013 after an innocent fall outside my home late one evening.
I was taken to the resuscitation room on arrival, where I suffered a respiratory arrest and my heart stopped due to the GCS7 (life threatening) head injury. I woke up after 3 hours unconscious and was naturally confused, shocked and dazed. It was a very serious head injury and I almost died. I wanted to go home because I was unaware I was seriously injured which is common due to post traumatic amnesia.
The nurse caring for me informed my family that I was unable to home. She told them I stopped breathing, my heart stopped and I had to be resuscitated. I became agitated which is normal for a head injury especially of that nature, so the nurse requested my family leave. She escorted them out. I pulled out the drips (normal part of PTA) and planned to go after my children. I didn't want to be there. I was scared and so confused.
I had been awake just a few minutes. While the nurse was escorting my children out, another nurse walked in and grabbed both my wrists and restrained me. She caused a lot of bruising to both wrists. The drips were in my hands not my wrists. I yelled out for help because she was hurting me and what happened next was my worst nightmare come true. Instead of giving me care and recognizing what was clear head injury problem, she called the police and made a false allegation of a pinched her thumb. The A&E doctor wrote a letter for the police and claimed I was fit to be released just minutes after id woken. Two burly policemen and two male security guards, cuffed me and dragged me out of the hospital to the awaiting police car. I was in my hospital gown which was undone at the back. Apart from the gown I was naked and bare foot. The gown dropped regularly so everyone saw me completely naked and bare foot. I was very distressed.
I was dumped in a police cell, still bleeding within 30 minutes of waking from a major head trauma and nearly dying.
The custody SGT put on the system there were no visible injuries. He lied. He put on mental health watch. I was put in a cell for 16 hours and charged with assault to the nurses thumb. I suffered a second head injury in the cell and wasn't fed or cared for. I was refused my medication for physical illness and no one was allowed to see me. The solicitor and advocate weren't informed for some time and arrived after 14 hours in the cell. They were horrified at what they saw. I was caked in blood from scalp to the tips of my hair which was very long. A lot of my hair dropped off at the front and stuck to the rest of my hair. My face and head still clearly very injured. I was in a very bad way.
I was release around 18 hours after I was first detained and taken home in the same condition I was put in a cell. ]
The hospital withheld my records for several weeks at the police request to prevent us finding out the full scale of my injures. The police then made my life a living hell for one year. They tried to get me done for witness intimidation and contempt of court because I made a legit complaint to the NMC. The NMC were useless and clearly as corrupt as the officers and hospital. The NMC then deliberately handed one of the police witnesses, a male nurse with a sex offense on record, all the court records and statements including mine. They were in contempt of court, not me. It went from one extreme to another.
I was found guilty of a crime I didn't commit and the police requested a total ban on my Internet to prevent me exposing it publicly. The judge refused the police request. I later appealed. I won my appeal without going to court which is a rare event.
It is the same hospital that killed my unborn baby in 2003 and I won my case and the same hospital where a woman died from her head injuries just 5 months before my situation.
I have suffered many failures at the hands of the Police which continue and show no sign of letting up.
I was taken to the resuscitation room on arrival, where I suffered a respiratory arrest and my heart stopped due to the GCS7 (life threatening) head injury. I woke up after 3 hours unconscious and was naturally confused, shocked and dazed. It was a very serious head injury and I almost died. I wanted to go home because I was unaware I was seriously injured which is common due to post traumatic amnesia.
The nurse caring for me informed my family that I was unable to home. She told them I stopped breathing, my heart stopped and I had to be resuscitated. I became agitated which is normal for a head injury especially of that nature, so the nurse requested my family leave. She escorted them out. I pulled out the drips (normal part of PTA) and planned to go after my children. I didn't want to be there. I was scared and so confused.
I had been awake just a few minutes. While the nurse was escorting my children out, another nurse walked in and grabbed both my wrists and restrained me. She caused a lot of bruising to both wrists. The drips were in my hands not my wrists. I yelled out for help because she was hurting me and what happened next was my worst nightmare come true. Instead of giving me care and recognizing what was clear head injury problem, she called the police and made a false allegation of a pinched her thumb. The A&E doctor wrote a letter for the police and claimed I was fit to be released just minutes after id woken. Two burly policemen and two male security guards, cuffed me and dragged me out of the hospital to the awaiting police car. I was in my hospital gown which was undone at the back. Apart from the gown I was naked and bare foot. The gown dropped regularly so everyone saw me completely naked and bare foot. I was very distressed.
I was dumped in a police cell, still bleeding within 30 minutes of waking from a major head trauma and nearly dying.
The custody SGT put on the system there were no visible injuries. He lied. He put on mental health watch. I was put in a cell for 16 hours and charged with assault to the nurses thumb. I suffered a second head injury in the cell and wasn't fed or cared for. I was refused my medication for physical illness and no one was allowed to see me. The solicitor and advocate weren't informed for some time and arrived after 14 hours in the cell. They were horrified at what they saw. I was caked in blood from scalp to the tips of my hair which was very long. A lot of my hair dropped off at the front and stuck to the rest of my hair. My face and head still clearly very injured. I was in a very bad way.
I was release around 18 hours after I was first detained and taken home in the same condition I was put in a cell. ]
The hospital withheld my records for several weeks at the police request to prevent us finding out the full scale of my injures. The police then made my life a living hell for one year. They tried to get me done for witness intimidation and contempt of court because I made a legit complaint to the NMC. The NMC were useless and clearly as corrupt as the officers and hospital. The NMC then deliberately handed one of the police witnesses, a male nurse with a sex offense on record, all the court records and statements including mine. They were in contempt of court, not me. It went from one extreme to another.
I was found guilty of a crime I didn't commit and the police requested a total ban on my Internet to prevent me exposing it publicly. The judge refused the police request. I later appealed. I won my appeal without going to court which is a rare event.
It is the same hospital that killed my unborn baby in 2003 and I won my case and the same hospital where a woman died from her head injuries just 5 months before my situation.
I have suffered many failures at the hands of the Police which continue and show no sign of letting up.
unfortunately the police seem programmed to behave in this way, and the more they commit misconduct in a particular case, the more they hurt the individual by trying to cover up.
ReplyDeleteTeresa's case is a classic example of what I am speaking up about, the things so horrifying that people who have not been through them cannot believe that they really happened, oh they did, we lived through them, they did and do happen.