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Jervon was detained overnight at the station and interviewed the following morning in the presence of an Appropriate Adult. Nevertheless, the energetic PC Miller now grabbed Peter and placed his right wrist into handcuffs, before forcing him face down onto a couch, knocking his glasses off in the process, and cuffing his left wrist with the assistance of another officer who also leant in through the window.

See my previous blog here about the ‘necessity criteria’ for arrest and why Officers must always consider less intrusive means of investigating an alleged offence than arrest.Jervon remained in detention overnight (now his second night in custody) before being taken to Ealing Magistrates’ Court where he was refused bail and remanded into prison custody at HMP Wormwood Scrubs. on 26 December 2021, uniformed officers now known to be PC Hague, PC Langford and PC Digby attended Ehab’s home address, asking for his brother. This disregard for PACE in Custody mirrored the disregard for the proper laws of arrest which Jervon had suffered in the Building Society.

This was a sensible move and in my opinion was entirely within the range of reasonable behaviour by any person confronted by Police Officers who has a mobile phone to hand. After Simon consulted me about the matter, I presented a claim on his behalf to Tesco, seeking damages for false imprisonment, assault and battery and trespass to goods (the latter part of his claim relating to the temporary ‘confiscation’ of his phone). Dean was then taken into custody and further detained, during which time he was interviewed under caution, before being released without charge. In the early evening of 31 July 2020, PC Miller of Wiltshire Police attended at my client’s property.

I am very pleased to have achieved this result for Ross, but for the reasons I outlined at the beginning of this blog, I know that he will be far from the last person to find his journey to baggage claim wrongfully turned into a trip to Police custody.

At 19:38, Officer Hunnisett recorded that “… DPA stated he wanted to go home, to which I stated he needs to be interviewed about the allegation”. Jervon suffered neck pain, back pain and bruises to his knees by means of his rough handling by the officers and was left feeling utterly degraded. In May 2023, Rebecca contacted her local Force, the Metropolitan Police, to seek information regarding Andrew under “Clare’s Law”. Taking the above into account, I consider that whilst the officer has breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour, his conduct is not deemed so serious that it would meet the threshold for misconduct (conduct so serious that at least a written warning would be justified).Accordingly, he advised that he would get out of his vehicle and turned off the engine, undid his seatbelt and wound up the driver’s window.