Gunner: My Life in Cricket

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Have any of you ever been so scared that your body is frozen to the spot and not even a sound or breath could leave your body?

The family had incurred considerable expense in terms of wasted flights, hotel and taxi charges, but the emotional toll upon them all was far worse. Unfortunately for myself and my children our justice was going to be a box of Maltesers as a way of a pathetic apology.To compound matters, Emily subsequently heard from the Officers’ supervisor by telephone and found him too to be dismissive of what had happened, trying to dissuade her from pursuing a ‘pointless’ complaint and flippantly commenting “If it makes any difference, I was on my way round with a box of maltesers”.

The Officers stated that given a Court Warrant had been issued, they had no alternative but to continue with Ross’s arrest.PC Little and PC Hillier then approached Jervon where he was sitting down, still in the partitioned area, and clearly not posing a threat to anyone or anything.

Andrew was deeply traumatised by these events, as would be any innocent person stigmatised by an accusation of rape – an accusation apparently ‘officially’ endorsed by the Police; he found the incident playing on his mind all the time and suffered sleep disturbance to such an extent that his GP had to prescribe him with medication. Although Ehab was free from their clutches, they now informed his brother that he was under arrest and was going to be taken into Custody on suspicion of “theft by finding” and obstructing an Officer. A black man who had innocuously visited his local Sainsbury’s to purchase some salad cream for a sandwich, was now being targeted as if he were a drug-dealer.The background to this matter, which occurred one evening in January 2023, was that Dean had gone to meet a friend at Manchester Airport. When Jervon then asked if he was actually under arrest PC Doyle repeatedly reiterated that Jervon was “detained”, as if this were some lawful alternative to arrest. The PND record made available to me at the time of your complaint does not show that you were arrested, I believe there was sufficient information in the PND record to contradict the incorrect outcome that was displayed, and therefore would have expected further enquiries and clarification to have been sought by the Metropolitan Police. She lost faith and confidence in Cheshire Police and would think twice about contacting the Force for help/assistance in the future. Emily and her children were left in a state of shock and the psychological ramifications of this Police intrusion into their lives would take a lot of hard work and heartache to resolve.