Morgan Freeman, Olivier Marchal and Simone Ashley will be lauded at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in June. Prince Albert II of Monaco will present Freeman with Festival’s Crystal Nymph award.
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To his family he was "gentle, quirky, hilarious" and deeply loved. He loved buses, Eddie Stobart, and speaking his mind. Connor Sparrowhawk also enjoyed watching the Mighty Boosh, lying in the sunshine and eating cake. He was known as Laughing Boy or LB.
But a decade ago the autistic 18-year-old died in a specialist NHS unit. Like one in four people with learning disabilities he also had epilepsy. In March 2013 he was admitted to the Short Term Assessment and Treatment Team Unit (STATT) run by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. in Oxford. On July 4th that year he drowned in the bath as a result of an epileptic seizure. He was behind a locked door and no member of staff was on hand to help him.
Two years later an inquest concluded that Connor’s death was contributed to by neglect. Now the story of how his parents fought to reveal the truth of what happened is to be told in a West End stage play.
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His mother, Sara Ryan, and stepfather, Dr Richard Higgins, who helped raise him from the age of three, and now live in Buxton, Derbyshire, spent years after Connor's death battling to get justice for their son’s entirely preventable death. In 2018 Southern Health NHS Trust was fined a record £2m after admitting ‘systematic failures’ following the deaths of two vulnerable patients, including Connor.
Tomorrow "Laughing Boy" will open at Jermyn Street Theatre in London, written by celebrated theatre director and playwright Stephen Unwin. The play includes portrayals of Connor's four siblings, Sara, and Richard who is a lecturer in policing at the University of Salford. The production is based on the book Sara wrote "Justice for
Morgan Freeman, Olivier Marchal and Simone Ashley will be lauded at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in June. Prince Albert II of Monaco will present Freeman with Festival’s Crystal Nymph award.
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