Patient 11
Patient 11 is an investigative story from the award-winning Sky News StoryCast strand. It follows Alexis Quinn, a young mother and former GB youth swimmer, who enters NHS psychiatric care after a family tragedy, only to have her three-day admission turn into a three-year ordeal. Undiagnosed with autism, she faces 24-hour surveillance and solitary confinement, encountering threats she never imagined. In a bid to escape and return to her daughter, she pits herself against powerful state institutions including the police.
Episodes
Introducing... Unreliable Witness: Who is Ellie Williams?
It’s the height of lockdown, 19-year-old Ellie Williams claims on social media she's been raped and exploited by an Asian grooming gang across the north of England. Photos of her alleged injuries add to the outrage and the post goes viral - shared more than 100,000 times. Social media rumours lead to attacks on Asian men and businesses in her hometown of Barrow-in-Furness. But when she's arrested
Episode 4: Breaking free
A long serving doctor and his partner agree to help Alexis break out of psychiatric care and flee the country, a decision that has the potential to change all their lives.This series discusses rape and sexual assault.Credits -From Sky News StoryCast, Patient 11 is written and produced by Robert Mulhern. Reporting by Rebecca Thomas and Robert Mulhern. Editing by Paul Stanworth. Data and Forensics b
Episode 3: Escape Plan
Enduring long periods in solitary and having descended to the darkest reaches of psychiatric care, Alexis plots an escape, one, that if successful, will take her thousands of miles from England. This series discusses rape and sexual assault.
Episode 2: In harm’s way
Undiagnosed, legally detained and separated from her daughter for more than a year, Alexis is moved to an all-male psychiatric ward on Christmas Eve, 2013. What happens next will, ultimately, bring her to the attention of the most powerful institutions in the state. This series discusses rape and sexual assault.
Episode 1: Locked-up and drugged
Following the death of her brother, young mother Alexis Quinn seeks temporary respite in NHS psychiatric care, never imagining that three days would turn into more than three years, or that her bid to break free would bring her to the attention of UK and European law enforcement agencies.This series discusses rape and sexual assault.
Introducing... Patient 11
Young mother and former GB youth swimmer, Alexis Quinn, agrees to enter NHS England psychiatric care following a family tragedy. She could never imagine that her three-day admission will turn into a three-year ordeal. Then undiagnosed with autism, and often the subject of 24-hour surveillance as well as long periods in solitary confinement, Alexis descends to the darkest reaches of locked-in, psyc
