we should say a big thank you to roy and pam who very bravely shared their story with us and we will follow it going into the future as well. the time is 6:24am. we re entering the christmas party season which was a write off last year because of covid. ben s taking a look at how the hospitality industry is gearing up for this year. explain where you are and what is happening there. good morning, can you believe it s that time of year again? welcome to swingers in west london, this place normally would be packed but it is quite at this time of day. here, they are full of parties, groups of people, workgroups, work parties, to make the most of this. it is a crazy golf place, djs and cocktails, all sorts of things going on. and this time of year, as you said, really
he s lived there longer now than he lived at home. you can t take that trauma away. june 29 was the day their son was detained in a specialist hospital. he is still there, 100 miles from home, two decades on. pam would say to him, you re coming home soon, tone. in the summer, when the yellow flowers around, in your garden, that s when you ll be coming home. he used to. his face was glee, he was really happy and everything. but over the years, we ve been telling him, now we tell him, he doesn t take no notice. happy birthday to you. happy birthday, mummy. the bbc has had to go to court to try and tell you this story. his family have had to go to court to try and bring him back to brighton. i love you. i love you too, tone. one week runs into a month, a month runs into a year. then that year went, then another year went. he speaks to us on the telephone at night, he describes all the rooms in the house.
he explains what colour wallpaper i ve got up. that s long gone. furniture, his memory is, that s all he s got, is home. he talks about the neighbours. all them neighbours have gone. they ve died. i mean, we ve travel back sometimes, we pull in, we both sit down and cry. i mean, i ve come home, i ve got pam, she s got me. he s got nobody. tony is in an assessment and treatment unit. they are really designed for short term stays in a crisis. the problem here isn t tony but the system. psychiatrists say he has been fit for discharge since 2013. but the process of trying to get him his own place to live, with the right support, back here in brighton, has been bogged down in delays and wrangles. so this month, the family went to the court of protection to try and break the deadlock. there, a judge said the delays are facing tony have been egregious. that the progress made
he s lived there longer now that he s lived at home. you cannot take that turmoil away. 0njune 29, 2001, pam and roy s son tony was detained under the mental health act. like many young people with autism in a learning disability, he did struggle to cope as he became an adult. i love you. i love you, too, tony. he s now lived in an atu, and assessment and treatment unit, for almost 21 years 100 miles from his family. the bbc has had to go to court to tell you to ny s story. his family of had to go to court to try and bring them back to brighton. one week runs into a month, a month runs into a year. then a year went, and another year went in another year went. we level back sometimes and would pull in and we d sit and cry. i mean, i come home and i ve got pam come home and i ve got pam, she s atu use are designed for short term stays in a crisis. the problem here is not tony but the system. psychiatrists said he s been fit for discharge since
onjune 29th, 2001, pam and roy s son tony was detained under the mental health act. like many young people with autism and a learning disability, he d struggled to cope as he became an adult. i love you. i love you, too, tony. he s now lived in an atu an assessment and treatment unit for almost 21 years, 100 miles from his family. the bbc has had to go to court to tell you tony s story. his family have had to go to court to try and bring him back to brighton. one week runs into a month, a month runs into a year. then that year went, then another year went. we d travel back sometimes and we d pull in and we d both sit down and cry. i mean, i come home and i ve got pam, she s got me. he s got nobody. atus are designed for short term stays in a crisis. the problem here is not tony, but the system. psychiatrists have said he s been fit for discharge since 2013. this month, the family went to the court of protection to try and break the deadlock.