Officers investigated over death of teen with autism who escaped police car on M5

Two constabulary officers person been served with misconduct notices aft a teen with autism escaped from a constabulary car and died connected the M5.

Tamzin Hall, from Wellington, was hit by a car connected the M5 betwixt junction 25 astatine Taunton and 24 astatine Bridgwater soon aft 11pm connected 11 November and sustained fatal injuries.

She had been nether apprehension astatine the clip and was travelling successful an Avon and Somerset Police car which had stopped connected the motorway, an inquest astatine Wells Town Hall heard earlier this week.

Tamzin was being taken to custody erstwhile officers pulled implicit for "safety reasons", the Independent Office for Police Conduct said.

She had been handcuffed with her hands successful beforehand of her and had an serviceman sat beside her, the IOPC added.

She fled the stationary marked constabulary car connected the northbound carriageway and died aft she was deed by a car connected the southbound carriageway.

In a connection the IOPC said the 2 officers from Avon and Somerset Police had been served misconduct notices for a "potential breach of their duties and responsibilities".

Such notices counsel officers their behaviour is taxable to an investigation, but does not needfully mean immoderate disciplinary proceedings volition follow.

IOPC determination manager David Ford said: "My thoughts and sympathies stay with Tamzin's household and friends, and everyone affected by the tragic events of that evening.

"We person met with Tamzin's household to connection our condolences and to outline however our probe volition progress. We volition supply them with regular updates arsenic our inquiries continue.

"Our probe is successful the aboriginal stages and we are moving hard to found the nonstop circumstances of what took place, from the clip of Tamzin's arrest, to however events unfolded a abbreviated clip aboriginal connected the M5."

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Mother pays tribute to 'very special' daughter

Speaking aft the proceeding earlier this week, Tamzin's parent Amy Hall paid tribute to her "very special" daughter, who she said had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

"Tamzin was the astir kindest, caring, loving, loyal miss ever. She was the astir honorable idiosyncratic I've ever known; she was precise peculiar to me," she said.

"She had a large consciousness of humour, and we had galore laughs together."

She added: "Tamzin was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, truthful she was unsocial and saw the satellite successful specified a antithetic way.

"Tamzin was my implicit everything and I can't judge she isn't present immoderate more. She was my world."

She said: "She was lone 17 but she has taught maine a batch and I tin usage that representation and clasp connected to that.

"I volition ne'er ever get implicit it, she was taken acold excessively young."

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