When Adele Green saw her 13-year-old son Eddie after his first month in a specialist hospital supposed to be helping him, she was shocked and disturbed by what she discovered.

The skinny teenager who liked cycling and dancing was grossly overweight.

He had been stuck in a tiny padded cell where he slept on a plastic mattress, was fed through a hatch, ate on the floor and had just a bowl for a toilet – watched all the time by guards through a glass window.

Sometimes he was handcuffed or his arms were strapped down with a belt. There was no television to pass the long, lonely hours – and if he wanted to breathe fresh air by pacing around a protected yard, he had to obey orders and talk nicely to staff.

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