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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Wednesday <strong>November</strong> 22 <strong>2017</strong> 5<br />

News<br />

Meeting with Adams<br />

over son’s suspected suicide<br />

• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />

GREENDALE resident Geoff<br />

Booth will meet with <strong>Selwyn</strong><br />

MP Amy Adams this week to<br />

discuss the death of his son and<br />

raise awareness of the mental<br />

health system.<br />

He will meet with Ms Adams<br />

to discuss his son Liam, <strong>21</strong>, who<br />

died from a suspected suicide<br />

on October 2, days after he had<br />

been treated at Hillmorton<br />

Hospital.<br />

Liam’s body was found in<br />

Beckenham Park, close to where<br />

he lived.<br />

Mr Booth said he is hoping to<br />

show Ms Adams what is left for<br />

people who survive after there<br />

is suicide in the family and what<br />

sort of affect it has on them.<br />

“She is my local MP – she<br />

represents me in Parliament and<br />

I suppose she needs to be aware,<br />

but it is probably more Jacinda<br />

Ardern and the new Government.<br />

I need to get in their ear<br />

to be able to change the outcome<br />

to suicide,” he said.<br />

He has written to Ms Ardern<br />

and Minister of Health David<br />

Clark to raise awareness<br />

about the country’s mental<br />

health system.<br />

About three weeks before<br />

Liam’s death, he had threatened<br />

to harm himself at Halswell<br />

Quarry Park. Police were called<br />

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and he was taken to Christchurch<br />

Hospital.<br />

He was discharged and<br />

continued receiving outpatient<br />

treatment at Hillmorton Hospital<br />

until the Friday before his<br />

death.<br />

Mr Booth has since told the<br />

Canterbury District Health<br />

Board that hospital staff had<br />

wrongly discharged Liam and<br />

taken his word he was not going<br />

to harm himself.<br />

Following Liam’s death, Mr<br />

Booth filed a complaint with the<br />

CDHB and is still waiting for a<br />

response.<br />

Mr Booth has since met with<br />

some of the CDHB’s key managers<br />

to ask what went wrong –<br />

but they were unable to tell him<br />

anything.<br />

He said things have been up<br />

and down for him since the<br />

death of his son.<br />

“Some days you win and some<br />

days you don’t. Some days it<br />

affects you more than others,”<br />

he said.<br />

Liam’s death has been referred<br />

to the coroner.<br />

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seeks consent<br />

to open store<br />

in Prebbleton<br />

• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />

PREBBLETON could be getting<br />

a Raeward Fresh.<br />

Foodstuffs South Island Ltd<br />

has lodged a resource consent to<br />

the district council to operate a<br />

Raeward Fresh store along with a<br />

cafe and associated car-parking.<br />

It would be located at 563<br />

Springs Rd – down the road from<br />

green grocer, Healthy Harvest<br />

Fruit and Veges.<br />

Foodstuffs South Island<br />

property and retail development<br />

general manager Roger Davidson<br />

said Prebbleton was chosen due<br />

to projected customer demand.<br />

He said there was a desire from<br />

consumers to have access to good<br />

quality fresh fruit and produce.<br />

Deputy Mayor Malcolm Lyall<br />

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