THE heartbroken brother of a teenager who died while in the care of a controversial Hampshire health trust led grieving families’ demands for the organisation’s leaders to resign.

Teenager Tom Ryan choked back tears as he branded Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Katrina Percy as “outrageous” in the wake of a scathing inquiry criticising the organisation for failing to investigate the deaths of hundreds of people in its care.

The 16-year-old was among furious relatives packing into the public gallery at an emotional board meeting at the trust headquarters in Tatchbury Mount yesterday – held following the release of the controversial report following the death of his brother Connor Sparrowhawk.

Ms Percy – facing the family for the first time in public – apologised profusely but refused demands for her to resign – saying lessons have been learned.

It comes as she revealed health watchdog the Care Quality Quality Commission (CQC) will launch unannounced inspections at the trust in the coming weeks.

People with learning difficulties told the meeting they had “lost trust” in the organisation’s care.

As reported by the Chronicle, the trust has faced widespread condemnation in the wake of a report criticising it of “serious failings”.

health secretary Jeremy hunt said the management failing was unacceptable.

Southern runs Melbury Lodge mental health unit in Winchester and the Leigh House Hospital for teenagers on Alresford Road.

The report, commissioned by NHS England, and carried out by auditors Mazars looked into all deaths at the trust between April, 2011 and March, 2015.

It showed that of the 10,306 deaths in the period, 722 were categorised as unexpected and only 272 had been investigated.