A judge has handed an NHS Trust a £2m fine for the preventable deaths of two patients in its care.

18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk had epilepsy, autism and learning difficulties when his condition deteriorated, and was taken to a unit run by Southern Health NHS Trust in 2013. There, he had a fit and drowned in the bath.

His death – and that of 45-year-old Teresa Colvin, who'd taken her own life in a different unit, were an "unnecessary human tragedy".

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