Boy Testifies ‘My own mother treated me like a dog’
On April - 4 - 2012
A teenager was terrorised for five years by his own ‘evil’ mother who locked him up and treated him ‘like a dog’ after she met a gypsy fortune teller, a court has heard. Andrew Clappison, 18, told a jury how his mother Linda Clappison, 46, prevented him from going to school – forcing him to work for gypsies on market stalls instead. The teenager told Hull Crown Court how she had been a caring mother-of-four until his father left the family home when he was 10-years-old. READ MORE HERE
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