Troubled Gascoigne detained under mental health laws

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LONDON (AFP) — Troubled former England player Paul Gascoigne has been sectioned under the mental health laws in Britain for the second time in five months, police said on Monday.

In the latest incident to highlight 41-year-old Gascoigne's increasingly bizarre behaviour, he was detained in Hemel Hempstead near London after "appearing unwell and in an agitated state", police said.

"Officers arrived and accompanied the man to hospital so he could be checked over. He was sectioned under the Mental Health Act," Hertfordshire Police said.

Gascoigne, widely known as "Gazza", was previously sectioned -- meaning he was placed in a secure unit for his own safety -- in February after reports that he had been acting strangely at a hotel and bar in Newcastle in his...