Giving evidence to the parliamentary joint committee on human rights, the father, Jeremy, told MPs and peers that his daughter Bethany, aged 17, has been detained under the Mental Health Act at St Andrews mental health unit in Northampton for the last two years.
For most of that time she has been locked in a cell in isolation where she has been fed through a hatch and allegedly subject to physical abuse, he said.
He read out a statement to the committee from Rebecca Hilsenrath, the chief executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, which is supporting legal action in the case. It criticises the unit, the NHS and Walsall Council, which is Bethany's corporate parent.
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