Appeal for privacy as fears grow for Gazza’s safety

PAUL GASCOIGNE’S stepdaughter said yesterday it was “a sad situation” that the England hero was detained under the Mental Health Act.

Bianca Gascoigne’s comments came as her stepfather was placed on suicide watch at a secure psychiatric unit after being sectioned.

The former England striker was locked up after two months of increasingly bizarre behaviour while living at a hotel in his home town of Gateshead.