Gazza leaves hospital

12 April 2012

Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne was released from hospital on Monday afternoon after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

Gascoigne was sectioned on Sunday after approaching a member of the public in an agitated state in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

A Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman said: "The man is no longer sectioned. Police believe he is no longer in hospital care."

It was the second time the troubled former Tottenham, Lazio and Rangers player has been sectioned this year.

At the weekend Anna Gascoigne spoke of her fears that her brother would die if he was not sectioned.

In an interview with the Sunday Mirror, she pleaded with fans not to buy the star a drink, saying: "You will have blood on your hands."

Her words came amid reports that the footballing great had again been involved in a drunken incident.

Gascoigne was seen collapsing in front of travellers at St Pancras railway station on Saturday night, before being taken away in an ambulance.

His sister told the newspaper: "I am not saying these words lightly. I want Paul to be sectioned to save his life. That is the last hope. There is nothing else. I fear every day he'll die."

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