. Jurors heard no external injuries were found on Mr Civil’s body but his mum, Georgette Civil, raised concerns about his care in the secure mental health unit where he had been detained since 2018.In his closing report, Mr Longstaff said there was evidence to suggest that Mr Civil had been “frustrated” by the slow progress of his treatment.
“It was evident that Freddy's personal conviction, that his Mental Health Act Tribunal application was bound to fail, in addition to the above factors, motivated his actions on 26 April 2021. When Freddy injected himself with heroin, he did not intend either to harm himself or to take his own life.”The report stated that Mr Civil died primarily from “heroin toxicity” with “Alprazolam, Promethazine, Mirtazapine and alcohol use” contributing to his passing.
The inquest heard Mr Civil, who was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, had been made subject to a hospital order by a judge after being sentenced to HMP Leeds for a crime that was not specified. He had been detained under the Mental Health Act at Newton Lodge, a medium security unit in the grounds of Fieldhead Hospital since the autumn of 2018., but that it was likely drug-induced rather than a mental disorder.
On the morning of his death, he had been escorted to an area of the hotel where patients can do their banking and withdrawn around £100 cash and bought a drink from a shop. But on his way back to his wing of the hospital, he gave the staff member escorting him the slip and ran out of the grounds of the unit.Mr Fielder-Civil previously admitted being the person who first gave Ms Winehouse heroin.