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Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Inquest date set into death of Ellesmere Port taxi driver
Inquest date set into death of Ellesmere Port taxi driver Stuart Roy Lester

Jul 21 2010

An inquest into the death of a taxi driver whose decapitated body was found inside his private-hire car will be heard next month.

Stuart Roy Lester, 38, of Horstone Gardens, Great Sutton, was found slumped in the driver’s seat of his Cozey Cars cab on the car park of Ellesmere Port Market at 6.45am on Tuesday, January 19.

The inquest into his apparent suicide will be held at Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston Magistrates Court on Friday, August 27, before Nicholas Leslie Rheinberg, HM Coroner for Cheshire.

Mr Lester’s body was discovered by a shocked member of the public.

Police, a fire engine and an ambulance all arrived at Market Square, where Mr Lester was confirmed dead.

The car park was quickly sealed off, with all entrances manned by police to keep people away.

Police covered the car’s windows with sheets where it had crashed into a small bollard.

Mr Lester, a former Whitby High School pupil, worked with his father, Roy, at Cozey Cars in Whitby.

He had previously worked at Diamond Precision Engineering in Birkenhead before moving to Airbus in Broughton.

He began his taxi career at Kingkabs, also with his father, before moving to Cozey Cars when that company was taken over by relatives.

Mr Lester’s funeral was held at Blacon Crematorium in February, with donations to the special care baby unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital and the DEC Haiti Disaster Fund.

Source; ellesmereportpioneer.co.uk
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:06 am ]
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Ellesmere Port taxi driver’s last text message to his dad

Sep 1 2010

The father of Stuart Lester found a text message on his phone saying ‘Sorry dad. Love you.’ when he woke up on the morning of his son’s death.

In a written statement read out at the inquest, Roy Lester said his son had been ‘very low’ the previous day because he wanted to be transferred to the psychiatric unit of the hospital.

After taking Stuart back home that night, Mr Lester had agreed to pick him up the next day to get his medication.

Mr Lester said Stuart had not spoken about harming himself or taking his own life.

But when he woke up the following morning, police confirmed that Stuart had taken his own life.

The previous Wednesday (January 13) Mr Lester received a call from Stuart at 11.30am in which he said ‘my head’s gone dad’.

Mr Lester went round to Stuart’s home and found him lying on his bed.

Stuart told Mr Lester he had been to Capenhurst train station the previous evening with a rope but had ‘bottled it’. Mr Lester immediately called an ambulance.

Paramedic Lisa Campbell arrived at the house to discover Stuart pleading for help.

She said: “He said ‘I’ve had enough, I want help’. He said he was feeling low, he said he’d tried to hang himself in the past but couldn’t do it.”

At this point Stuart had been drinking a litre bottle of brandy a day and was in very poor health, particularly with his diabetes.

Source; http://www.ellesmereportpioneer.co.uk/e ... -27173505/
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:07 am ]
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This guy had too many issues & should have received medical help.
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:12 am ]
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Sucide taxi driver was 'failed' by mental health chiefs says distraught mum

01 October 2010

A depressed taxi driver took his life hours after begging mental health teams to detain him for his own safety, an inquest heard.

Stuart Roy Lester, 39, was found decapitated behind the wheel of his Vauxhall Vectra in the early hours of January 19.

Shocked pharmacy worker Madeleine Owen, of Bromborough, made the discovery in the car park of Market Square, Ellesmere Port, as she made her way to work.

“I saw a car which was in such a position in the car park that I thought it had been stolen. As I walked towards it I was telephoning the police, but then inside I saw what I initially thought was a tailor’s dummy. Then I realised it was human. I burst out crying.”

The Chester Inquest heard how prior to his death just after 5.36am, Mr Lester, described as a quiet, polite, private man, had sent a text message to both his father and sister saying: “I am sorry, I love you.”

His mother Marjorie Hall, and other loved ones, listened as evidence from Stuart's father and mental health teams confirmed that the day before his suicide a desperate Mr Lester pleaded with psychiatric workers to be sectioned.

The inquest held by coroner for Cheshire Nicholas Rheinberg, heard how Mr Lester, a driver for Cozey Cars, had been battling depression since 2004 and had a drinking problem.

He had told psychiatric teams he had been increasingly harbouring suicidal thoughts and, having obtained a rope, had recently completed a ‘trial run’ and visited Capenhurst Station with the intention of taking his own life, but had ‘bottled out’.

Mr Lester, of Horstone Gardens, Ellesmere Port, made the admissions to psychiatric teams while he was being treated for alcohol related health problems at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Mr Lester continued to voice feelings of being low and met with highly experienced psychiatric liaison social worker Peter Williams, who recorded him as being a ‘medium to high suicide risk’, and had made such an opinion known to psychiatric crisis teams who later met with Mr Lester and authorised his discharge from hospital for ongoing assessment.

Asked by Mr Rheinberg what impression he had been given by the taxi driver during the initial meeting, Mr Williams said he had been “very concerned” about his suicidal tendencies: “My impression was that Stuart had longstanding depression and suicidal ideation at the time.”

The inquest heard evidence from Nurse Sian Williams, who formed part of the psychiatric team, which made the decision to discharge him.

Nurse Williams said she and a colleague met with Mr Lester and after a discussion between the parties about the different treatments available, he had agreed to a home treatment plan of care.

Mr Rheinberg said: “Here you have got someone who is expressing a strong wish to stay in hospital, someone who is actively suicidal and is seen by a very experienced social worker who has outlined the risks. Isn’t it sensible to take someone of this nature in to hospital?”

In reply, nurse Williams said Mr Lester was agreed to the home treatment plan and said that she and her team had made the decision based on the evidence presented to her from meeting with him.

“Obviously this is not the outcome we would have wanted,” she said.
Recording a verdict of suicide, Mr Rheinberg told Mr Lester’s family: “I am sorry to meet you in these circumstances. This must have been quite a traumatic ordeal for all of you.”

After the inquest Mr Lester’s mother questioned the decision to discharge her son from hospital despite his pleas to be detained, and later told the Leader: “My son was failed. He called me to say he was staying in hospital and he sounded so relieved. Why didn’t they listen? They let him out when he so obviously needed further help. If Stuart had received that help he might still be here today. My son was desperate.”

She now plans to write to the medical ombudsman to report what she says were” clear medical failings” in the treatment of her son.

Source; http://www.chesterfirst.co.uk/news/9265 ... t-mum.aspx
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:14 am ]
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Nurse says Ellesmere Port taxi driver agreed to home care treatment plan

Sep 1 2010

A specialist nurse says Stuart Lester had agreed to be treated at home the day before his death.

Sian Williams of the Crisis Home Treatment Team at Chester-based Bowmere Hospital, along with one of her colleagues, assessed Stuart on the Monday evening.

Although she admits Stuart had asked to be detained, by the end of the one hour assessment she says he agreed home care was the ‘best plan’.

During the inquest she described the assessments as being ‘therapeutic intervention’.

Ms Williams said: “Mr Lester agreed to home treatment to be assessed on a daily basis. He was willing to agree to home treatment.

“He would have been seen by specialist nurses twice a day. We provide the same as we do on the ward.”

She confirmed that she wasn’t able to compare notes with social worker Peter Williams, who had assessed Stuart earlier, as he had finished for the day.

She added: “My assessment was quite different, based on the evidence in front of us we made a plan we felt was most appropriate for the treatment he needed.

“I’m not saying I got it wrong.

“At the beginning of the assessment he said he wanted us to put him in hospital, by the end of the discussion he agreed home treatment was the best plan.”

Source; http://www.ellesmereportpioneer.co.uk/e ... -27173503/
Author:  Stationtone [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:40 am ]
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This Guy was let down badly and unfortunately taxing is not the job at the moment for someone suffering from depression :sad:
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