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Autistic son given overdose

Title
Autistic son given overdose
Genre
News report; Interview
TX Date
29 Aug 1989
Year of production
1989
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Duration
00:01:28
Description
Angus Moorat reports from Reading Crown Court where a housewife from Berkshire has been describing how she tried to kill her autistic son. Judith Jones went through a catalogue of personal tragedy last Christmas before she gave her fifteen year-old son Jonathan(?) Jones a near-fatal dose of sleeping tablets. Includes interview with Judith Jones. Broadcast on Radio 210.
Contributors
Angus Moorat; Radio 210; Judith Jones
Keywords
Homicide; Children (age group); Berkshire; Drugs; Children (family); Autism; Trials; Disabilities; Padworth; Reading; Judith Jones; Jonathan(?) Jones

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