Property News · November 17, 2016

Will the ‘bored’ teenage runaway be dogged by the story when he grows up?


Arthur Heeler-Frood recently ran away from his Devon home – a fact that will always appear on a Google search of his name. But how will future employers view something that he did when he was 15?What becomes of a teenage runaway? Fifteen-year-old Arthur Heeler-Frood, from Axminster in Devon, left his home in September, leaving his parents a measured note of apology, explaining: “I have run away because I am bored of my life”, with instructions on where to find his school uniform (“in a bin bag in a small barn in the field on the green down the road near Membury church”).Two months on, his parents made a public appeal on ITV’s this Morning. It worked. On Monday, he was spotted at Honiton railway station, 10 miles from his home and taken in by the police. He’d been sleeping rough as far away as London and Birmingham, and has since issued an apology to the police, and society as a whole. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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