Amy Winehouse's ex-mother-in-law has criticised mental health provisions after her son fled a Yorkshire secure hospital and died of an overdose.
“My son was robbed of his dignity and his respect, and the grossly poor handling of the complaints procedure was just shocking. He was no better treated - and I hate to say it - than like a caged dog. But for me, the real tragedy here is Freddy had good, good cause to fear he would never be free. We both did."
Mum-of-three Georgette, from Rippingdale in Lincolnshire, had hoped to open a barber shop with her son in the future. She had formerly owned a salon.“And with every upset, I would always say to Freddy, 'Do you want me to raise it with staff.' And I did, I supported Freddy. He’s my son, I love him. She said Freddy had really idolised older brother Blake. Freddy's personal diaries had been released to Georgette after his death - in them she found he claimed staff were nicknaming him after the paedophile Jimmy Savile.
Freddy called what was going on in the hospital "disgusting" and wrote that he hoped to show his diaries to a lawyer in the future. Coroner Oliver Longstaff agreed that Freddy had found the slow progress of his treatment frustrating in his summary of the inquest on Thursday, November 24 - but Georgette felt more should be done.
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