GEOFFREY PACKMAN, 67

GEOFFREY Packman died aged 67 in September 1 , nine days after being transferred to Dr Jane Barton’s care at Gosport’s Dryad ward.

At the 200 inquest, which concluded that ‘inappropriate’ opiates were implicated in his death, his family’s lawyer challenged Dr Barton on why she had referred to Dryad ward as ‘the end of the line for patients’.

She said patient notes often referred unrealistically to a need for rehabilitation. ‘We were not a rehabilitation ward,’ she added.

Mr Packman’s daughter Vicky said her father was ‘in good spirits’ when he was admitted but ‘three days later was away with the fairies’.