Coroners, courts, regulators and inspectors have recorded what restraint does to the people it is used on. This casebook publishes those records as short, sourced case pages: what happened, what went wrong, and what it means for the people running the service.
Every entry states its confidence, what could not be verified, and where the source runs out. Where a case is still live, we hold it. Where a name cannot be justified, we do not print it. Publications are labelled as publications, because a national count is not an incident.
22 case entries and 8 publications.
He called an ambulance for his heart, then said he could not breathe
Andrew McCleary was restrained for eighteen minutes so he could be taken to hospital. A jury found he was unlawfully killed.
Three straps and no shoulder harness
A 76-year-old stroke patient died in the back of an ambulance after the crew left off the harness their own training required.