"An autistic teenager who was locked up inside a mental hospital has finally been moved after a two year campaign by his mother."
"Stephen Andrade, 19, from Holloway, was detained 60 miles from home at a self harming ward for 25 to 40-year-olds at St Andrews Hospital in Northampton – where his family were often told they couldn’t see him as they "upset him".
"He has lost the ability to speak and has not been allowed to see his eight-year-old brother Joshua for eight months."
"His mother Leo Andrade started a petition which has gathered more than 10,000 signatures and appeared on Channel 4 News in a plea to help bring Stephen home and finally he has been moved to a specialised autism unit in a secure hospital in Colchester."
"However, Mrs Andrade says that it could still be a year before she is allowed to bring her son home."
"At St Andrews they had him on six anti-psychotic drugs and two of them are for epileptic people, said Mrs Andrade, who lives with her husband Manuel and her eight-year-old son Joshua in Rixon Street, Holloway."
http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/autistic_holloway_teen_moved_from_mental_hospital_after_mother_s_campaign_1_3911728
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