So they put Tasha in handcuffs and she goes into the back of the police van and my mum goes, where are you taking her? Goes, we’re taking her to hospital…
Okay.
So she went to this hospital, the Queen Elizabeth, I really can’t remember what the area was, but she was there. So we were like complaining, saying, look, we’ve waited four, five hours for you to tell us where Tasha is, like we’ve all just been sitting at home, like where is she? So she’s at this hospital and she gets told she’s going to be admitted to The Dene hospital in West Sussex. So, I was like, what’s The Dene hospital? So I went, actually went online now and checked for The Dene hospital. It’s a private hospital and it’s got all these facilities and it was like, I thought oh, this sounds like a nice place. So she goes down to the hospital in West Sussex, which is like 50 miles away from South Norwood from where she is. So this was on Wednesday, this is 25th April 2012. So the next day – and she’s texting us, texting, you know.
And she’s texting, Natasha was in contact with my dad, I wasn’t really in contact with my dad, but Natasha was. So she was contacting him, you know, giving him the address of the hospital, like, come and visit me in this hospital. Natasha was there for like maybe two days at The Dene hospital in West Sussex, and she was like, they’re not treating people right here. And was like - and I know when Tasha gets that in her head - I was like, Tasha, look, don’t worry about other people, just focus on yourself. You know, we need to get you back to this part of the world, you know, back local again. So we started finding out that this hospital was a medium secure unit, so it was like, my mum was like, why is she here, why is she in a medium secure unit. So…
So she’d been sectioned, had she?
She’d been sectioned, but she said that they did that incorrectly. Natasha said that, Natasha knew more about sectioning than any of us did because she was the ward administrator at this, you know. She said they had done it incorrectly, it wasn’t right. She didn’t need to be sectioned, she just needs a few days to relax. She was very coherent when she was talking, but she knew she just needed to rest, and that’s what it was. So, I remember going to see her on a Friday with my mum, and I get there and you have to put, you have to give them your mobile phone, you know, anything, give it in.
So a bit like a prison or something.
It felt like a prison, exactly felt. And Tasha saw me, she said, what is this place? I was like, I said, Tasha, I don’t know, I didn’t know it was like this. I said, you know, I’ll try and get you back, I’ll speak to your doctor, Dr Gupta, and your community psychiatrist.
