BFI apologises after woman with Asperger’s kicked out of cinema

Tamsin Parker was verbally abused by some audience members for laughing during film screening

BFI cinema Tamsin Parker
Tamsin Parker was celebrating her birthday
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The British Film Institute has apologised after a woman with Asperger’s syndrome was forcibly removed from its London Southbank cinema for “laughing too loudly”.

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