A woman met her death in less than a fortnight after being attacked in the hospital by another patient ';because she was snoring';.
Eileen Bunting, 65, was allegedly hit around the head with a cup in the middle of the night by a woman she was sharing a room with at Hull Royal Infirmary.
Mrs Bunting had been recovering after a third stay at the hospital and was due to go home the next day. However, her condition deteriorated after the incident and she was readmitted.
Nurses told her family that the patient had tied the door handles together to stop anyone getting in before the attack.
Her son claims that assault, which left her needing 14 stitches, was premeditated, Hull Live reports.
He says the door in the room she was in “had been pulled to and tied together with a blanket” and that nurses found the fellow patient “stood over her with the cup.”
Police are now investigating after they were called to the hospital at 3.45am.
Meanwhile, bosses at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, say they were “shocked” but that staff “followed all the correct procedures” when responding to the incident.
Eileen was married to her husband Philip for 47 years, who was devastated by her rapid decline after the attack.
He said: “Apparently the night before, another patient said the patient that attacked her was getting agitated at Eileen’s snoring.
“She took a pill that night, a sleeping tablet and that night she just attacked her. I know it was to do with snoring. I know it’s the reason.
“The day she got attacked, she was supposed to be coming home. After she got attacked she went down. She came out of the hospital the next day but the day after, she was back in again. A few days later we were told she only had a few days left to live."
Eileen’s son Mark Bunting is also seeking answers surrounding his mother';s death.
“The nurses must have been doing the rounds, noticed the doors were shut and found my mum full of blood and her stood over her with a cup,” he said.