Dan O'Sullivan told a psychiatrist of his suicide plans, but was allowed to leave hospital.
Jayne O'Sullivan said she still doesn't have answers as to why her son was released from a mental health unitThe mother of a man who took his own life says the NHS unit where he was treated is "not a safe institution".
Mrs O'Sullivan, who is originally from north London but is living in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, said her son had mental health problems for at least a decade, including episodes of paranoia. On 13 March 2019 he tried to take his own life, until he was discouraged by a member of the public on Vauxhall Bridge in central London.
On the next afternoon - a Tuesday - staff allowed him to leave for a short time to buy cigarettes. Dan never returned and wasn't reported as missing to the Met Police by staff until after midnight, even though he should have been back by 21:00 GMT.Mrs O'Sullivan said the first time she even heard her son had been sectioned was when officers knocked on the family's front door to inform them of his death.
Eventually, Mrs O'Sullivan hired Nicola Wainwright from JMW Solicitors to pursue legal proceedings against the NHS trust because she felt Dan "hadn't been listened to in life and he was going to be listened to now".
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