Matthew Garnett was sent to a secure unit for six weeks. He stayed there for half a year as mental health services struggled to cope“Matthew’s bed at domestic’s been empty for six months,” Isabelle Garnett says from the family house in south London as she tells me approximately her son. “I can’t walk by his bedroom.”Since September 2015, 15-year-ancient Matthew Garnett – who has autism, and ADHD and anxiety – has been held two hours’ drive away from his domestic in a secure mental health treatment unit in Woking,Surrey. Or as his mum puts it to me, “the equivalent of being left on an A&E trolley for six months”.
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Source: theguardian.com