2 Aug 2022

Inquest begins into death of Erica Hume

From Morning Report, 8:35 am on 2 August 2022

Eight years of hurt was written over the face of a man whose daughter died in a suspected suicide at the Palmerston North Hospital mental health ward. Erica Hume died in May 2014.

At an inquest into her death her father Owen made an emotional plea for change.

Manawatu reporter Jimmy Ellingham has more and his report begins with Owen Hume's voice.