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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Dan Haygarth

Mum moving house after autistic son's face 'smashed in' at school

A mum says that her autistic son was attacked for 30 minutes by a group of fellow pupils on the premises of a Liverpool school.

Becci King, from Croxteth, said that her 15-year-old son, who is in Year 11 at The De La Salle Academy, was assaulted by a group of more than 10 boys in the school building on Tuesday (April 26). The assault left the boy, who the ECHO will not name, with heavy bruising and injuries to his face.

A spokesperson for De La Salle confirmed that a pupil was assaulted by other boys at the school on Tuesday and it is investigating the incident, as well as cooperating with police.

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