News about Sebastian Armesto

Connor's mum, Sara, calls her son LB, short for Laughing Boy. Also London Buses, which her fun, funny child cuddled as others kids cuddle teddies. He hated shops, loud noise and darkness. He was 'quirky', says Sara, an Oxford academic, smiling through tears. Autistic, epileptic, Connor saw things in his own way. He could be a 'handful', but he was easy to love. Notice the past tense. Aged 18, Connor left his special school, where he was safe and happy, and moved into the next phase of 'care': an Assessment and Treatment Unit run by Southern Health. He was never assessed. He was 'treated' with sedatives. Reports of his seizures were ignored. Locked in a bathroom, while his supervisor ordered groceries on-line, he drowned.