Father died in hospital corridor after CS gas used

A MAN died in a hospital corridor after CS gas was used, an inquest heard.

His wife Carol Massey told a jury at Nottingham Coroner's Court that when she arrived at King's Mill Hospital she saw her husband was on the floor in a corridor, handcuffed and in leg restraints with officers kneeling on him. She said she was told she couldn't go and see him because CS gas had been used.

Father of three Victor Massey, 54, of Westwood, had been admitted to King's Mill Hospital with pancreatitis on August 2, 2006. His wife said he had been in a lot of pain and his stomach had swollen to the 'size of a balloon.'

She told the court he died at around 12.30am on August 8, 2006.

Mrs Massey said she was called just before midnight on August 7 by hospital staff who told her that her husband had locked himself in a bathroom and wouldn't come out. She drove to the hospital with her 15-year-old son Tom but when she arrived saw her husband laying in a corridor, surrounded by police.

Mrs Massey was told by a female worker she couldn't go to her husband, who was shouting her name.

She said: "I said 'whatever have you done, he hasn't left his bed for six days, he has been on pure oxygen, he can't withstand this.'

"She said CS gas has been used. I said 'What? I said you will kill him'."

Mrs Massey said when she and her son arrived on the ward a police officer came over to her and told her they had used CS gas on her husband. She added: "He said he [Victor] was smashing windows, he was going mental, I've CS gassed him."

Mrs Massey told the jury her husband had been on oxygen since he was admitted to King's Mill and had not been allowed to eat or drink anything. He had been on a drip and had a catheter and had not left his bed. She said he had initially been on morphine and had been hallucinating but this was changed to tramadol.

She said her husband, a dedicated father and landscape gardener, continued to hallucinate and she told staff - but no one did anything about it or recorded it in his notes.

On the day before his death Mrs Massey said her husband pleaded with her to take him home. She said: "He said why did you send me here? Don't you know they call this Killer Mill? Nobody comes here, they don't get out."

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