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Suicide: South Lakeland nurse killed himself after being wrongly accused of inappropriate contact with patient, inquest hears
10:21am Friday 12th July 2013 in NewsA NURSE was found hanged at his South Lakeland home after being wrongly accused of inapporpriate contact with a female patient, an inquest heard.
Christopher Milnes, 50, was fully exonerated but at the hearing his family hit out at Morecambe Bay NHS Trust for taking so long to inform him he was in the clear.
The false claim was made while Mr Milnes was working at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary in May 2012.
He was found dead at home in Chestnut Close, Holme, near Milnthorpe, on December 16.
A pathologist gave the cause of death as hanging and found no alcohol, drugs or underlying health conditions.
