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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