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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Danny Rigg

Teen with Tourette's quit school after being doused in water and called 'freak'

A boy bullied out of school for having Tourette's syndrome now travels to another county for school.

People laughed and cast "weird" looks at Josh Dooley, 17, during his time at school on the Wirral. Some called him names and one person even asked, 'Can you tic for me?', before an incident where boys doused him with water on a bus proved to be the final straw.

His dad left his full-time job to take on a role at a private school so they could reduce the fees enough to afford to send Josh there instead. But this solution proved temporary.

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