Three mystery deaths in the space of four months at a mental health unit in Redruth are now under investigation.
The deaths of a 22-year-old man and two women aged 44 and 65 at Longreach House on the Camborne and Redruth Community Hospital site are not being treated as suicides and so far inquires have yielded no formal cause of death.
The Cornwall Partnership Trust, who run the centre, say that the deaths are unconnected but are now under joint investigation by the county coroner, the police and the Mental Health Act Commission.
Henry Gibb, 22, from Falmouth, died in his bed on June 25 after being detained under the Mental Health Act, 65-year-old Ann Buckfield died the following day in the shower and 44-year-old voluntary patient Carol Baker collapsed in a communal area in March. Dr Terry McClatchey, chairman of the Cornwall Partnership Trust, said the unexplained nature of the deaths was "concerning."
Full report in this week's Camborne-Redruth Packet.
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