Patient left staff member unconscious in mental hospital attack

A MENTAL health patient attacked a fellow hospital resident, leaving him unconscious in a pool of blood with two ligatures wrapped tightly around his neck, a court heard.

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Aeron Gingell, 23, carried out the attack in a toilets in St Cadoc’s Hospital, a mental health facility in Caerleon, in January this year.

Prosecutor Byron Broadstock told Cardiff Crown Court that, back in February 2022, Gingell was detained at the hospital after being caught in possession of knives.

During a sentencing hearing at the same court yesterday, Mr Broadstock detailed how on January 21 a hospital resident was found unconscious on the floor of a bathroom at the facility with blood around his head and two ligatures around his neck.

‘An ambulance attended and the victim was taken to the University Hospital of Wales for treatment.