SCOTLAND’S biggest health board has begun investigating allegations of cruelty at a mental health unit described as “hell” by its teenage patients.

The revelations came to light in as part of a BBC Scotland Disclosure programme, aired on Monday, which listened to the experiences of young people treated at Skye House, on the estate of Glasgow’s Stobhill Hospital, between 2017 and 2024.

Young women who had stayed at the 24-bed unit described a regime where, amid a recruitment crisis, inexperienced temporary staff routinely delivered verbal abuse, were quick to resort to forceful restraint and over-medicated distressed patients — effectively chemically coshing them.