http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/02/03/judge-halts-case-against-citizens-arrest-chip-shop-owner/ Taking a different one on the news Sat, 19 May 2012 13:15:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/02/03/judge-halts-case-against-citizens-arrest-chip-shop-owner/#comment-5930 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:14:25 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/02/03/judge-halts-case-against-citizens-arrest-chip-shop-owner/#comment-5930 This is a notoriously difficult area of the law and without boring you senseless an arrest by a citizen on another has to be very carefully done . What we know and what the police thought happened may be miles apart but I know exactly the feelings of the fish and chip shop proprietor having witnessed a lot of incidence late a night in take aways. The problem here sounds like the age of the boy ( very young) , which must have rung alarm bells in the arresting officers head for reasons other than the c.arrest itself. This is a notoriously difficult area of the law and without boring you senseless an arrest by a citizen on another has to be very carefully done . What we know and what the police thought happened may be miles apart but I know exactly the feelings of the fish and chip shop proprietor having witnessed a lot of incidence late a night in take aways. The problem here sounds like the age of the boy ( very young) , which must have rung alarm bells in the arresting officers head for reasons other than the c.arrest itself.

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