Nurse cleared of gross negligence manslaughter after £6m trial

An NHS boss who failed to remove bin bags from a hospital toilet where a suicidal woman killed herself was cleared of manslaughter after a trial which cost the taxpayer up to £6m. Benjamin Aninakwa, 53, was manager of an acute psychiatric ward at Goodmayes Hospital, where Alice Figueiredo, 22, was found dead on 7 July 2015. He had been on a ‘performance improvement plan’ for three years before Ms Figueiredo took her own life. Ms Figueiredo tried to harm…