A high-achieving teen became a shell of his former self after he was sent to a notorious psychiatric institute. He tells Jimmy Ellingham how Lake Alice changed his life.
As electricity pulsed through his body, the boy stiffened and convulsed.
Terrified, the others looked on at the behest of their tormenter.
It was 1976, in villa seven of the child and adolescent unit at Lake Alice, near Marton.
Tied to a bed, a boy from Niue was surrounded by other teenagers and children.
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