Former heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno was tonight receiving treatment at a mental hospital after being taken from his home by medics.
A police source said officers had assisted in removing the father-of-three from his home in Essex, England under the terms of mental health legislation. He was transferred into the care of a local mental health NHS trust.
Essex police would only say: "We have been assisting ambulance crews to remove a patient from an address near Brentwood."
The source added: "The patient is Frank Bruno. It is my understanding that he has been sectioned."
He said Bruno was believed to have been taken to a London hospital. Eyewitnesses said Bruno was driven away from his home shortly before 7pm tonight.
