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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sam Russell

HISTORICAL FACTS: Mentally ill driver was released from custody two months before killing boy | History Defined

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A paranoid schizophrenic who drove his car into a crowd of children outside a school, killing a 12-year-old-boy, had been released from police custody two months earlier following a Mental Health Act assessment which lasted less than three minutes, an inquest heard.

Harley Watson was with friends when he was struck by a car which was driven by Terence Glover along the pavement outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, after 3pm on December 2 2019.

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