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Sister blasts council over report into brother's death
The sister of a mentally-ill Surbiton man who killed himself by setting fire to his flat has blasted Kingston Council for sitting on a report into her brother’s death.
Council chiefs told Gillian Hall they would review mental health strategy for housing support officers following an inquest into the death of her bipolar brother Kevin on April 1, 2011. Mr Hall, 57, caused an explosion when he set fire to himself in his flat in St Andrew’s Road, having failed to turn up to an eviction hearing and telling social workers he “no longer had the will to fight”.
At an inquest in February, coroner Elizabeth Pygott recorded a verdict of suicide, but Miss Hall claimed her brother was failed by housing workers, who she believed were not properly trained to deal with his mental health problems. Despite promising an investigation, until last week the council insisted no review had been carried out. But on Thursday a spokesman admitted a review had in fact been carried out to see if “lessons could be learned”.
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