Coroner reserves decision following four-day hearing into death of man who left hospital in early hours

Coroner makes clear he will not be recording a verdict of death by suicide in the case of Patrick Rowland , who drowned after leaving Mayo University HospitalPatrick Rowland who discharged himself from MUH, rang his son to bring him home, but when son arrived he had disappeared and was later found drowned in the Castlebar riverAn inquest verdict on the death of a man who drowned after leaving Mayo University Hospital in the early hours of January 17th, 2023, has been reserved by Patrick...

An inquest lasting four days at Swinford courthouse this week heard that when outside the hospital Mr Rowland rang his son, Cormac, to collect him in Castlebar.‘I’ve never had so much fun’: The Dub running for Nigel Farage’s Reform party threatening Jacob Rees-Mogg’s seatClare Daly’s dog-whistle to haters of the media wasn’t just hypocritical, it was reckless

In evidence earlier this week, Cormac Rowland, a schoolteacher, recalled that half an hour before he took the phone call from his father he had been by his beside in the ward to which he had been moved after 43 hours on a trolley.Evidence was given at Thursday’s hearing that Patrick Rowland had made a failed attempt to leave the hospital at about 9.30pm, some hours before he successfully exited the hospital at 1.08am.

The witness said he brought Mr Rowland to the nurses’ station where he sat down with him for an hour until Cormac Rowland arrived and said he would settle his father down. According to members of his family, Mr Rowland had been greatly confused during his stay in hospital. However, the suggestion of confusion or delirium was denied by witnesses from the hospital.

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