Blackpool stroke patient, 75, died after being sexually assaulted in hospital bed
An inquest has opened into the death of Valerie Kneale at Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Valerie Kneale
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A stroke patient at Blackpool Victoria Hospital is believed to have died after being sexually assaulted while she lay ill in her hospital bed.
HOSPITAL MURDER
Stroke patient, 75, ‘died after being sexually assaulted in hospital bed’ as worker is arrested on suspicion of murder
Sarah Ridley
Updated: 0:41, 11 May 2021
A PENSIONER is believed to have been murdered while in hospital after dying from internal injuries from a sexual assault, an inquest heard yesterday.
Valerie Kneale, 75, was admitted following a stroke and had later broken her leg when falling from a chair.
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Valerie Kneale died from injuries following a sexual assaulted in hospital, an inquest has heardCredit: PA:Press Association
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Her condition deteriorated and she died four days later at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
A police investigation was launched after a post mortem concluded she died from a non-medical-related internal injury.
15:36 EDT, 10 May 2021
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A stroke patient died after being sexually assaulted as she lay ill in a hospital bed, an inquest heard.
Valerie Kneale had been admitted to Blackpool Victoria Hospital following a stroke and had later broken her leg when falling from a chair.
The 75-year-old s condition deteriorated and she died four days later.
A police investigation was launched after a post mortem concluded she died from a non-medical-related internal injury.
Stroke patient Valerie Kneale, 75, (pictured), died from a haemorrhage caused by a non-medical related internal injury
A male hospital worker was arrested on suspicion of murder, rape and sexual assault and has since been bailed pending further inquiries.
Submitting.
And yet I wasn’t apprehensive. I felt fortunate.
As I walked up to the Lancashire Cardiac Centre in the sunshine early this morning, strolling past the rubble remains of the former Parkwood unit at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, I knew the best part of a thousand people had died with Covid just yards away.
I was to become the fifth patient to be given VLA2001, the Covid-19 trial vaccine from French firm Valneva. possibly.
It’s a 50/50 chance I was injected with inactivated Covid, which is the old fashioned approach Valneva is taking with its jab, or Oxford/AstraZeneca’s vaccine, itself derived from genetically modified chimp virus.