Severely autistic six-year-old boy trapped on school bus for five hours after being 'forgotten about'
A severely autistic six-year-old boy was left trapped on a school bus for five hours after he was 'forgotten about'.
Brandon Presley, who has profound learning disabilities, travelled to his specialistschool on the privately-operated council minibus with classmates but wasn't escorted off.
The bus then went back to the depot in Torbay, Devon, and the shaken youngster - who was strapped into a child seat - was only spotted when the driver returned for the afternoon pick-up at 2.30pm.
Brandon, who doesn't have the same vocabulary skills as many children of his age, sat without food or water in the warehouse for around five hours during the incident in April.
His furious parents, Anthony and Sophie, claim that despite a council investigation, the driver is back at work and the company even asked if he could still take the boy to school.
Lorry driver Anthony, 36, from Paignton, Devon, said: "I went bonkers when we found out.
"He's still in nappies so he had been sat there all day, strapped in, with no food, no water, in a big warehouse where they keep their buses.
"We took him to the doctors for dehydration. They checked him over and said he was okay, but just to keep an eye on him.
"Brandon is a danger to himself. If he had got off that bus God knows what could have happened.
"He's not really in the same world as us. What is wrong to us, isn't wrong to him.
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