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Ess*x Police have apologized to the family of a 12-year-old boy for failing to stop a paranoid schizophrenic driver from killing him after a series of blunders by police and mental health professionals, an investigation has concluded.
Terence Glover killed Harley Watson and injured nine other children and a 23-year-old man when he crashed his car into them outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Ess*x on December 2, 2019.
A report into the tragedy revealed that police at one point blocked Glover’s number after he bombarded them with calls, even threatening to kill “many children”.
Glover had previously expressed paranoid beliefs that he was being persecuted and told police in 999 calls that he “might run over some schoolchildren.”
Arrested
He was arrested in September 2019 by police investigating malicious communications offences, but after a Mental Health Act assessment, which lasted less than three minutes, he was not detained, an investigation heard.
A jury concluded Thursday, after a nine-day investigation in Chelmsford, that Harley was unlawfully killed.
They recorded that Glover’s mental health evaluation was “inadequate and we determined that this inadequacy led to a failure in the possible detention of the perpetrator under the Mental Health Act.”
Among other factors listed as “possibly more than minimal cause or contributions to Harley’s death,” police failed to advance their investigation of Glover with “specific speed and accuracy.”
They said “the failure to share information between the services involved is inexcusable.”
Deputy Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: “On behalf of the force, I would like to offer my sincerest apologies for the failures of Ess*x Police identified in the investigation.”
“As the father of two children, I can’t imagine anything worse than the trauma Harley’s family is going through and the devastation and frustration they must feel.
It goes without saying that we fully accept the results of the investigation.
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‘We have not waited until today to change the way information is shared between medical mental health experts and the police. We have provided additional training to our contact handlers and our colleagues who respond to the calls we receive for help.
Family
Following the investigation, Harley’s mother, Jo Fricker, said: “We believe, and evidence from several witnesses agreed, that if these significant and serious failures had not occurred, Harley would still be alive today.”
We miss him terribly.
She continued: ‘State agencies failed to act effectively on Glover’s repeated and known threats to run over and harm children.
He was allowed to be dangerous, untreated and released the day he killed Harley.
Investigation
“The evidence showed that the police investigation into Glover’s criminal acts, before he killed Harley, was totally inadequate, seriously flawed.”
She said she was “appalled by what came to light during the investigation: the numerous and repeated failures to keep people safe.”
Mrs Fricker said the family will spend the next 24 hours “planning a celebration for Harley’s 15th birthday without him”.
The MoS revealed earlier this year that a psychiatric team decided not to detain Glover just weeks before the December 2019 attack, despite warnings from police that he planned to run over children. Now, a report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct reveals:
A concerned parent alerted police that Glover was driving suspiciously near the school and watching the children as they returned home from school.
Despite that, the IOPC investigation absolved Ess*x Police of any blame and makes no recommendations to change their policies or training.
“Ess*x Police appear to have acted reasonably in their dealings with him and, having responded within the powers available to them to respond to his vague death threats, he cannot be judged to have contributed to the death of Harley Watson,” he concluded.
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