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https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RYPNBRGKYZBXRDX7N3ICCQERW4.jpg?focal=641%2C496&auth=6dc4e769f5ff53b85b6f50fe8a5eeeec9261977b3d0fdf84a254ce98035b8b13&width=800&height=533 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RYPNBRGKYZBXRDX7N3ICCQERW4.jpg?focal=641%2C496&auth=6dc4e769f5ff53b85b6f50fe8a5eeeec9261977b3d0fdf84a254ce98035b8b13&width=1200&height=799 1200w" width="800" height="533"/></figure></a><hr class="c-divider"/></article></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“When police took over the investigation and seized trust equipment [it was originally a joint investigation between a health trust and the PSNI] the incidents tripled; I stopped counting at 150.”</p><p class="c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link"><span>[ </span><a aria-label="Open related story" class="c-link" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/muckamore-abbey-seven-face-prosecution-over-alleged-patient-mistreatment-1.4539407" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Muckamore Abbey: Seven face prosecution over alleged patient mistreatment<span class="visually-hidden">Opens in new window</span></a><span> ]</span></p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">On Monday, a landmark public inquiry examining systemic abuse of Muckamore patients will hear opening statements. Aaron’s case and the role of his father in raising the alarm will be central to an inquiry that is set to run for years.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fuQba8T6Jr6YD-3-4-3-91dbb7fac388b" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0fuQba8T6Jr6YD-3-4-3-91dbb7fac388b" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Set on a rural site close to Antrim town, Muckamore opened in 1949 and by the 1960s was regarded as a model community, with a farm, staff chalets and even its own cinema. An overhaul of care in the early 1990s led to the discharge of many patients into the community, though some remained there for decades.</p><div class=" paywall"><figure class="c-media-item"><div style="aspect-ratio:800 / 450;background-color:var(--global-neutral-1)" class=""><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Muckamore Abbey Hospital. File photograph: Liam McBurney/PA" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/SAUD6LJMHRDAREN4GARTPLTEOA.jpg?auth=faef7c6d6d6728929f8ecbb64ff11def8ca272818678a2d682f655aa4f1fc823&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/SAUD6LJMHRDAREN4GARTPLTEOA.jpg?auth=faef7c6d6d6728929f8ecbb64ff11def8ca272818678a2d682f655aa4f1fc823&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/SAUD6LJMHRDAREN4GARTPLTEOA.jpg?auth=faef7c6d6d6728929f8ecbb64ff11def8ca272818678a2d682f655aa4f1fc823&width=440&height=247 440w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/SAUD6LJMHRDAREN4GARTPLTEOA.jpg?auth=faef7c6d6d6728929f8ecbb64ff11def8ca272818678a2d682f655aa4f1fc823&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/SAUD6LJMHRDAREN4GARTPLTEOA.jpg?auth=faef7c6d6d6728929f8ecbb64ff11def8ca272818678a2d682f655aa4f1fc823&width=1024&height=576 1024w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/SAUD6LJMHRDAREN4GARTPLTEOA.jpg?auth=faef7c6d6d6728929f8ecbb64ff11def8ca272818678a2d682f655aa4f1fc823&width=1440&height=810 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 400px, (max-width: 440px) 440px, (max-width: 800px) 800px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, (min-width: 1025px) 1440px" width="800" height="450"/></div><figcaption class="c-media-item__fig-caption"><span class="c-media-item__caption">Muckamore Abbey Hospital. File photograph: Liam McBurney/PA </span></figcaption></figure></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Sitting in a Belfast coffee shop a short distance from the inquiry offices in the Cathedral Quarter of the city, Glynn Brown cuts an imposing figure but rushes to greet me with a warm hello.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">It is the first time we’ve met in two years after countless phone calls and email exchanges that began in July 2018 when a Muckamore whistleblower contacted me in the Irish News about CCTV footage capturing patient abuse.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Registered nurses were among those who did not realise the cameras were recording, as disturbing images emerged of staff allegedly striking critically ill adults.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Whistleblower claims of patients being placed in a tiny seclusion room for hours – compared to jail by one parent –without supervision were substantiated.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">To date, more than 1,500 suspected crimes have been uncovered by detectives in the ward where Aaron Brown was a patient in what is now the biggest criminal adult safeguarding case of its kind in the UK.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fVXNppHnA0bqg-3-4-4-382d5232918eb" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0fVXNppHnA0bqg-3-4-4-382d5232918eb" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Crucial to the police investigation is the CCTV footage – which Mr Brown pursued after being alerted to the first assault, a “punch in the stomach” in August 2017.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“I met a manager and asked if there had been any incidents like this before. It seems incredible now but he said ‘no’ and that it was ‘the first incident of its kind’, which put me on the back foot. I started questioning myself. I was thinking, ‘Am I being paranoid?’” the Dundonald man recalls.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“I got a big apology but the problem was you couldn’t get information. I asked who assaulted him. I was told, ‘I can’t tell you that.’ Was it male or female? He said: ‘I can’t tell you that.’ I asked was it a charge nurse, deputy charge nurse or healthcare support; the reply – ‘I can’t tell you that.’</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“I told the manager I was going to the police and that they better have kept recordings. He said the cameras didn’t record – which I found very strange as there were signs everywhere saying you were under surveillance.”</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">As the unprecedented scale of the abuse began to emerge, relatives of patients became concerned about NHS communication failings – and resorted to Freedom of Information requests to obtain “basic” details about the case.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The initial slow pace of the police investigation gave rise to further frustration as families looked to similar inquiries in England, where care assistants were jailed within a year of an undercover BBC Panorama investigation into the Winterbourne View home.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fYKctXj7wt6xL-3-4-5-1266d912352927" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0fYKctXj7wt6xL-3-4-5-1266d912352927" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Political pledges of support for a public inquiry during Stormont’s three-year collapse went nowhere as the civil servant running the Department of Health said he was powerless to act. An outcry followed when leaked correspondence revealed the department believed an inquiry “wasn’t in the public interest”.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“The whole system ran for cover when this scandal broke. Everybody failed: the health trust, adult safeguarding, the watchdog and the politicians,” Mr Brown says.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“On the day the story first appeared, two trust officials came to my house and apologised. The front page headline was ‘13 now suspended’. As they were sitting down, I said: ‘Is this story true?’</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“They both answered simultaneously – one said yes and the other said no.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“Everything was kept very tight, there was a long drip, drip, drip of information.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“It was traumatic; you were led to believe Aaron was going in for four to six weeks for assessment and treatment. People don’t understand; once you section your relative you lose total control. We had no say in anything.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0f6RPR7vA01bMt-3-4-6-738e5e1a29fa5" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0f6RPR7vA01bMt-3-4-6-738e5e1a29fa5" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“So we formed our own pressure group and went hell for leather from that.”</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">More than 80 Muckamore staff – mainly from the nursing workforce – have been suspended by the Belfast trust, the organisation responsible for the hospital.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">There have been 34 arrests and eight people faces charges linked to alleged abuse.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">A specialist team of detectives was employed to view more than 300,000 hours of CCTV footage – a trust review assessed just 20 minutes of sample footage – and further files are currently under review by the Public Prosecution Service.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The North’s Minister for Health Robin Swann announced the inquiry in September 2020, saying: “I cannot find words to adequately describe the scale of this betrayal of trust by this scandal.”</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The inquiry team has the remit to investigate “events” going back more than 20 years.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fTB5060bBt6oG-3-4-7-1bffb1c211af7" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0fTB5060bBt6oG-3-4-7-1bffb1c211af7" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Core objectives are to determine “why the abuse happened and the range of circumstances that allowed it to happen”, as well as ensuring “such abuse does not occur again at Muckamore Abbey Hospital” or “any other institution providing similar services in Northern Ireland”.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Reflecting on the families’ “four long years” of campaigning, Mr Brown becomes emotional.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">His wife Karen has been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and continues to receive counselling.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“Like all parents of disabled children, you’re aware you have a finite time on earth, so what I’m hoping is that if I’m still alive by the time this inquiry completes that it will show the incompetence, the lack of governance, the sheer neglect by all parties concerned; this has to go from top to bottom,” he says.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“I’m hoping there will be radical root-and-branch reform and that the end result will ensure that vulnerable patients are in much safer environments. “It consumes your life but the scary thing is if I hadn’t pursued this, the unprecedented abuse my son and others were subjected to on a daily basis would still be going on; no one would be aware of the extent of it. It was too big to let go.”</p><div class=" paywall"><figure class="c-media-item"><div style="aspect-ratio:800 / 540;background-color:var(--global-neutral-1)" class=""><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Glynn Brown pictured with solicitor Claire McKeegan who will represent 32 families at the Corn exchange building in Belfast, ahead of the inquiry into the Muckamore Abbey Hospital inquiry which begins on Monday. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker/The Irish Times" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/64AC2SOWVUC4Y5HLDUKDRLFZVU.JPG?auth=0f3a1072afd3b1d803026fdc0bd335ce2bc1207b5efaeac5124e7c501ba36dee&width=800&height=540" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/64AC2SOWVUC4Y5HLDUKDRLFZVU.JPG?auth=0f3a1072afd3b1d803026fdc0bd335ce2bc1207b5efaeac5124e7c501ba36dee&width=400&height=270 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/64AC2SOWVUC4Y5HLDUKDRLFZVU.JPG?auth=0f3a1072afd3b1d803026fdc0bd335ce2bc1207b5efaeac5124e7c501ba36dee&width=440&height=297 440w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/64AC2SOWVUC4Y5HLDUKDRLFZVU.JPG?auth=0f3a1072afd3b1d803026fdc0bd335ce2bc1207b5efaeac5124e7c501ba36dee&width=800&height=540 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/64AC2SOWVUC4Y5HLDUKDRLFZVU.JPG?auth=0f3a1072afd3b1d803026fdc0bd335ce2bc1207b5efaeac5124e7c501ba36dee&width=1024&height=691 1024w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/64AC2SOWVUC4Y5HLDUKDRLFZVU.JPG?auth=0f3a1072afd3b1d803026fdc0bd335ce2bc1207b5efaeac5124e7c501ba36dee&width=1440&height=972 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 400px, (max-width: 440px) 440px, (max-width: 800px) 800px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, (min-width: 1025px) 1440px" width="800" height="540"/></div><figcaption class="c-media-item__fig-caption"><span class="c-media-item__caption">Glynn Brown pictured with solicitor Claire McKeegan who will represent 32 families at the Corn exchange building in Belfast, ahead of the inquiry into the Muckamore Abbey Hospital inquiry which begins on Monday. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker/The Irish Times </span></figcaption></figure></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Aaron was discharged from Muckamore just before the Covid-19 pandemic and “is doing very well” in supported living accommodation, while staying with his family several nights a week.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“We have three other boys. They feel let down by the system and what their brother had to endure. We want heads to roll,” adds Mr Brown.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Human rights lawyer Claire McKeegan represents the Action for Muckamore (AFM) pressure group headed by Mr Brown. He singles out her “incredible” support.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">She is preparing for Monday’s hearing and is representing 32 families.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“It is actually the largest adult safeguarding scandal in a public hospital in the UK, so it can’t be understated how much went wrong,” she says.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“Every single day when I speak to a client I’m further shocked. As someone who’s been involved in it for over three years now, the testimonies you get every day are horrifying.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“You’re dealing with people who are the most vulnerable in our society who were betrayed on a catastrophic level to a point where they’re still suffering today; it appears those staff, management and governance did this with impunity – because they felt they were going to get away with it.”</p></article><div class="c-stack b-flex-promo-list-block" data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap" style="--c-stack-gap:1rem"></div><div class="floating-subscribe"></div><div id="lazy_63450" class="lazy_container"><div class="b-flex-chain"><div class="b-flex-chain__grid-container b-flex-chain__grid-container__12 gap"><div class="c-stack grid-item " data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" 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EVENING PRAYER at 17.00 Monday, Weds, Friday. CHORAL EVENSONG - 18.00 Tuesday 1st April - Responses: Rose, Psalms 1-5, Philip Moore: The Third Service, Mundy: O Lord, the maker of all thing. CHORAL EVENSONG - 18.00 Thursday 3rd April - Responses: Rose, Psalms 15-17, Ayleward: The Short Service, Batten: Out of the deep.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNKEQWCELBGJFOABGV4PXEIAUY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin</b> THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT MOTHERING SUNDAY- 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Cathedral Choir- Hadyn: Little Organ Mass, Rutter: For the beauty of the earth, Rachmaninov: Ave Maria, Preacher: The Revd P.K.McDowell, B.A., B.Th. Prebendary of Clonmethan. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG - sung by the Lay Vicars Choral- Responses: Tallis, Tallis: Dorian Mode, Psalm: 149, Sermon in Music: Tallis: The Lamentations of Jerimiah. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 Monday to Friday. 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