Lawsuit against the arresting officer for wrongful arrest and false
imprisonment and the neighbour for defamation.
I am assuming "your mate" is male. Was the other party female?
"gavin" wrote in message
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> A friend of mine has just told me about how he was arrested recently for
> an alleged assault. The police reaction seemed well over the top to me and
> I wondered what anyone else thought?
> Apparently, my mate's neighbour has dogs which bark constantly and that
> really tees him off. The dogs were barking the other night fairly late on
> so apparently he went out to have a word with his neighbour who told him
> to "eff off".
>
> Not many minuets later a police van pulls up outside. After a while they
> knock on his door and arrest him for assault. The neighbour called the
> police alleging that my mate had "pushed" him!
>
> My mate denied the charge but nevertheless the police handcuffed him, put
> him the back of the van and took him to the police station where he spent
> the next seven hours in a cell!!! Eventually, they interviewed him and
> whoever makes these decisions said there was no charge to answer and so he
> was released?
>
> My mate said there were no witnesses so I'm assuming that was why the
> charge was dropped.
>
> But surely the police investigating the charge at the time would have
> known that there were no witnesses and so there wouldn't be a charge to
> answer?
>
> My friend was not asked for his side of the story until he was interviewed
> more than six hours later.
>
> Given that the alleged incident was a push and that there were no
> witnesses anyway isn't it just a little over the top to arrest my mate and
> handcuff him - certainly without asking him his version of the events
> first? My friend, by the way, has never been in any trouble before and a
> milder bloke you couldn't wish to meet.
>
> I'd be interested in any comments.
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