Coroner to investigate mental health care teenager received before death

Further statements will be provided to give background to the treatment and care Laura Vasilisina received before her death.

A coroner will review the mental health treatment and care received by a teenager before her death. Laura Vasilisina died aged 19 at her home in Cambridge.

The hearing by Coroner Simon Milburn took place on Wednesday, April 29, at Vantage House in Huntingdon. Mr Milburn decided the inquest will need to look at the treatment and care Miss Vasilisina received for her mental health and drug and alcohol use before her death.

Miss Vasilisina had been in contact with the liaison psychiatry service provided by Cambridge University Hospitals. She was being treated for a history of drugs and alcohol use that had affected her mental health, and had also been in contact with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

A toxicology report showed there was a mix of drugs and alcohol in her system at the time of her death. Further statements will be provided by the liaison psychiatry service and doctors who had been in contact with Miss Vasilisina before her death.

The pre-inquest heard that Miss Vasilisina’s treatment and care history prior to her death “will be relevant to the background” for the inquest. The inquest was adjourned and will be reviewed in 12 weeks after the statements have been provided.

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