Sending Strength to Melanie Leahy

Sending Strength to Melanie Leahy at The Lampard Enquiry

Good Luck to Melanie Leahy today at The Lampard Enquiry.
I have interviewed Melanie on many occasions on Women’s Radio, Gateway Radio, and Sky TV’s The Chrissy B Show where she has shared the heartbreaking story about the death of her son.
Matthew Leahy, 20, died in November 2012.

He was found unresponsive in his room at the Linden Centre, a secure mental health unit in Chelmsford, eight days after he was sectioned.

Melanie received a call to tell her what had happened. She raced to the hospital but it was too late.

Melanie recalls going in and “there lay Matthew, on the trolley, he had a blue hospital gown on… And in that instant, I just wanted to go and grab him and hold him and bring him back to life”.

Melanie says she was told by staff: “Don’t touch him, he’s a crime scene.”

“I was taken into a side room and asked what undertaker I had planned,” Melanie remembers she was planning his 21st birthday.

It was soon after her son’s death that she grew concerned that things she was being told about what happened didn’t add up.

Melanie also has unanswered questions about a serious allegation her son had made days before his death.

Melanie and many Families of the patients who died in Essex have been campaigning for years, claiming they have not been told the truth about what happened to their loved ones.

Melanie Leahy, whose son Matthew is among those who died, believes the large number of deaths being investigated will continue to grow.

Sending you lots of strength Melanie from all at Anna Kennedy Online.