The parents of a teenage girl who died after being left alone at a children's mental health ward by an agency worker using a fake ID have said "systemic failures" led to her unlawful death.Ruth Szymankiewicz was being treated for an eating disorder at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire and had been placed under strict one-to-one observation when on February 12 2022, she was left on her own by the member of staff responsible for watching her.The 14-year-old was able to shut herself in her bedroom

The parents of a teenage girl who died after being left alone at a children's mental health ward by an agency worker using a fake ID have said "systemic failures" led to her unlawful death.Ruth Szymankiewicz was being treated for an eating disorder at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire and had been placed under strict one-to-one observation when on February 12 2022, she was left on her own by the member of staff responsible for watching her.The 14-year-old was able to shut herself in her bedroom at the hospital's psychiatric intensive care unit - also known as Thames ward - where she self-harmed.