Smiffyboy
22nd September 2003, 20:51
British boxing hero sectioned
Former world heavyweight champion boxer Frank Bruno has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Police and paramedics spent several hours on Monday afternoon trying to persuade Bruno to accompany them for treatment at a psychiatric hospital.
An ambulance arrived at his country mansion near Brentwood in Essex and was followed by a police car.
Three officers entered the house, which stands in 70 acres of farmland and has its own gym and ring, and a car marked with the logo of the NHS trust also arrived.
A police spokesman confirmed that the officers had been trying to talk Bruno into going peaceably.
Bruno admitted last month that he had checked into the Priory Clinic following his painful and costly divorce from his wife.
Bruno dismisses drug stories
But the former WBC heavyweight champion, who applied for the reinstatement of his boxing licence in June, denied that he had a problem and insisted he was still capable of challenging for the world title.
"I went to the Priory because I couldn't understand how I could lose so much money through lawyers, through solicitors, through accountants and through people," Bruno told BBC Radio Five Live's Sportsweek at the time.
"It is jealousy and power and money. They are trying to make me into the English Mike Tyson but I'm not the English Mike Tyson. I'm the English Frank Bruno I always was.
"Everybody has problems. I'm okay. I've been through a lot of pressure, a lot of stress, but I'm feeling stronger and stronger every day.
"I wouldn't go so far as to say I've been depressed. With the money I lost, I've been a little bit depressed."
Bruno is now likely to be kept under observation in a medically secure unit until doctors are convinced he is responding to treatment.
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Former world heavyweight champion boxer Frank Bruno has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Police and paramedics spent several hours on Monday afternoon trying to persuade Bruno to accompany them for treatment at a psychiatric hospital.
An ambulance arrived at his country mansion near Brentwood in Essex and was followed by a police car.
Three officers entered the house, which stands in 70 acres of farmland and has its own gym and ring, and a car marked with the logo of the NHS trust also arrived.
A police spokesman confirmed that the officers had been trying to talk Bruno into going peaceably.
Bruno admitted last month that he had checked into the Priory Clinic following his painful and costly divorce from his wife.
Bruno dismisses drug stories
But the former WBC heavyweight champion, who applied for the reinstatement of his boxing licence in June, denied that he had a problem and insisted he was still capable of challenging for the world title.
"I went to the Priory because I couldn't understand how I could lose so much money through lawyers, through solicitors, through accountants and through people," Bruno told BBC Radio Five Live's Sportsweek at the time.
"It is jealousy and power and money. They are trying to make me into the English Mike Tyson but I'm not the English Mike Tyson. I'm the English Frank Bruno I always was.
"Everybody has problems. I'm okay. I've been through a lot of pressure, a lot of stress, but I'm feeling stronger and stronger every day.
"I wouldn't go so far as to say I've been depressed. With the money I lost, I've been a little bit depressed."
Bruno is now likely to be kept under observation in a medically secure unit until doctors are convinced he is responding to treatment.
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