Left: Connor Sparrowhawk an autistic, epileptic 18 year old with learning difficulties
who drowned while suffering a seizure during an unsupervised bath in a UK care facility.
Right: Connor Sparrowhawk's mother Sara Ryan who testified it never crossed
her mind that her son would be left to bathe unsupervised
A UK mother has testified during a tribunal review of a Doctor's responsibility, and the role his performance might have played in the death of 18 year old Connor Sparrowhawk an 18 year old autistic, epileptic youth who drowned when he suffered a seizure while taking a bath unsupervised in a UK NHS care facility. The linked article from Oxford Mail states that Connor Sparrowhawk also suffered from a learning disability.
The doctor involved has admitted 30 professional failures including obtaining his history of symptoms, failure to keep medical records etc. which apparently resulted in Connor's unsupervised bathing.
Connor Sparrowhawk's mother, Sara Ryan, is reported to have fought back tears as she testified:
"We just assumed he was being supervised in the bath. It was not something that came to my mind. It was almost one-to-one support on the unit.
"It had a whole team of specialist staff and there were five patients. It just never crossed my mind."
Our son suffers from severe Autism Disorder, profound Intellectual Disability and epileptic seizures including tonic clonic or grand mal seizures. He has never been left to bathe on his own even prior to his first observed tonic clonic, epileptic seizure.
When our Conor, now 21, goes to the bath one of us is with him. We do not want to lose him.
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