Summary
EIGHTEEN-year-old Jamie Bauld has Down's syndrome and a mental age of five. He is gentle and polite, so polite that when police arrived to interview him he welcomed them with a big smile and a handshake and went on to agree with everything they said.
Jamie - who cannot even tie his own shoelaces, needs help on the lavatory, mustn't be left alone in the house and still relies on his mother to tuck him up in bed at night - had had an altercation with an Asian girl of a similar age, also a special needs pupil. She wouldn't leave him alone to eat his lunch so he pushed her and told her to go away.See the full content of this document
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When Compassion Is Totally Absent
Given their mental ages, it was no more significant than a playground spat between two five-year-olds and should have ended ther...
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