The grieving brother of a teenager who died while in the care of a controversial Hampshire health trust today made an emotional demand for organisation's bosses to resign.

Tom Ryan fought back the tears as he slammed bosses of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust at a packed board meeting at the trust's headquarters in Tatchbury Mount.

It follows the death of his brother Connor Sparrowhawk, 18, who drowned in a bath after an epileptic seizure at Slade House, in Headington, Oxfordshire in 2013.

At his inquest a jury concluded there were "serious failings" in his bathing arrangements.

Since then the trust has faced widespread condemnation following the release of a scathing independent report criticising it for "serious failings" in failing to investigate the deaths of people with mental health problems and learning difficulties in its care.

At today's meeting Chief executive Katrina Percy apologised to the family - in what is the first time she has faced the family in public since the report was released.

It was a poignant moment in a highly emotionally charged meeting attended by other families of those who died - where relatives presented an art installation featuring 337 handmade figures of gingerbread men representing some of those who lost their lives.

But Ms Percy and other senior board members refused demands for them to resign.

It comes as she revealed that health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will be launching unannounced inspections in the trust in the coming weeks, Mr Ryan' s voice shook as he challenged Ms Percy accompanied by encouragement from the audience before embracing his mother Sarah Ryan in front of supporters - many who had got up at early in the morning to travel to the meeting from Oxford.

Mr Ryan told the meeting: "It's outrageous you haven't properly apologised to our family. If it wasn't for my mother pointing out the flaws you would have been useless. "It's taken you two years and even if you did do something today it's too late."

He added: "it seems you don't care about people with learning difficulties. Imagine if it had been babies - it would have been investigated. These are people and you should have investigated."

Ms Percy said: "We are incredibly sorry that the actions and care allowed Connor to die. We can't imagine how much the pain is for you."

She said the family's fight for change has greatly influenced public awareness and added: "changes are going to happen not just with Southern Health."

But among heckling calls for her and other board members to resign, chairman Mike Petter said no one will step down and added: "we have put together an action plan. The role of the board is to to take them through this process."

Chief operating officer Dr Chris Gordon told the meeting how the plan is yet to be signed off due to "teething problems" in how data should be recorded.

This led to shouts from one audience member of: "this doesn't fill me with confidence."

Public Governor John Green, was also sitting in the audience, and he promised the board of governors would be looking into the case, following complaints at last week's board of governors meeting that they failed to hold bosses to account in the wake of the scandal.

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.

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

The trust said it has imposed a raft of improvements have been since made including recording deaths of patients with both mental health and learning disabilities dying while inpatients in their care and after 12 months of discharge.