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.
147 case entries and 47 publications.
Handcuffed face down on a respiratory ward, dead moments later
A 57-year-old man with lung cancer and pneumonia was cuffed face down on the floor by police. The jury found the restraint contributed to his death.
A security guard held him down and no nurse watched
A 41-year-old man in delirium was restrained on a hospital floor by a security guard. The jury found he had been unlawfully killed.