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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Louise Lazell

Mother of boy, 12, mown down by schizophrenic driver warned police he would ‘kill children’

A grieving mother whose 12-year-old son was mown down by a paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly warned police that he would “kill children”, and now says they are “the real criminals” after an Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation concluded that no further action is needed.

Speaking “two-and-a-half years of hell” since her son Harley Watson was killed by schizophrenic motorist Terence Glover, 52, outside his Essex school on December 2, 2019, Jo Fricker, 35, branded the IOPC findings “insulting” after an inquest jury in June found the actions of both the police and the mental health services “possibly contributed to his death.”

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