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Staff slept while patient killed at NHS mental health unit
Monday, September 14, 2026
An inquest heard that Rolando Torres-Pena, 22, strangled and killed Hugo Flint-Cahan on a hospital ward at an NHS mental health unit in east London. The inquest examined how Torres-Pena was able to carry out the killing while staff were present on the ward. The specific circumstances of the incident and findings from the inquest were not detailed in the available information.
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