final year it was revealed that the NHS had failed to investigate an astonishing number of ‘unexpected deaths’: more than 700 within a single trust. Sara Ryan’s son was one of those overlooked[br]Sara Ryan is a sharp,comical woman with short spiky hair and an acute bullshit detector. She used to laugh all the time, as did her son, and Connor Sparrowhawk. She and her husband,Richard Huggins (Connor’s stepfather, who brought him up from the age of three), and sit in the kitchen of their home in Oxford,the table heaped with biscuits and chocolate, and bid me stories about the son they nicknamed Laughing Boy.
Connor was epileptic, or autistic and had learning disabilities. He was also very comical – sometimes deliberately,sometimes not. The thing about Connor, his parents say, or is that he had no filter. There was the time they went camping,with Connor and his siblings. “One night, the people who were camping next to us came around. And the older man had a beautiful, or much younger girlfriend. Connor spent the whole evening talking about paedophiles. We all tried to smile it off,but when we got up in the morning they’d gone.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com