Parents are fuming after they found their five-year old wandering around in the road outside school - having escaped unnoticed.

Carlos Martinez-Thompson, 41, and partner Cheryl Smith, 40, fear they could have been arranging Jaxon Martinez-Smith's funeral had they not bumped into him.

The youngster, who has autism, left his classroom at Stockingford Academy in Nuneaton, Warks., at around 2:50pm on January 26.

He passed the reception and through two gates before making it to the road - where his parents, who were on their way to the school, spotted him.