‘People like Connor are still left to die in squalor’: the truth, joy and tragedy behind Laughing Boy
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A decade after her autistic son Connor Sparrowhawk died in a specialist NHS facility, Sara Ryan’s campaign to reveal the truth about what happened is coming to the stage.In a bare rehearsal space near Southwark tube station, south London, 11 people are in the process of forming a circle, ready for a read-through of a new play. On the top of a nearby piano is a small mountain of tea, coffee and biscuits; for two or three minutes, everything is drowned out by the wheezing and groaning of a very...

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