Paul Richard Nathan Spencer, 43, died in 2019 after a dispute with security at Royal Jubilee Hospital, where he’d been admitted after suffering delusions
In sometimes emotional testimony at a coroner’s inquest, Angela Spencer described her son Paul as “very friendly” and well-liked by their neighbours. She wants to know why he died after an altercation in hospital.
Richard Neary, counsel for Angela Spencer, said outside inquest that she told him that about 2 a.m. on Sept. 27 she had called the police because her son had left home and she was worried about him.Saanich police Const. Shauntelle Nichols, who had been provided with Paul Spencer’s cellphone number, managed to contact him and convince him to go to the hospital. She found him at a bus stop near the hospital and took him there for treatment.
“Something happened later, revealed in the medical records that she received through the Freedom of Information Act, indicating that there was clearly an altercation around 5:30 a.m.,” Neary said. “So he’d been there around three-and-a-half hours, had slept some of that time. Dr. Brook Alder Nero, Paul Spencer’s family doctor, said Spencer didn’t present as a typical psychotic patient.
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