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67 year old man gets dawn police raid for single swear word

 
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Grandfather arrested at dawn and held in a police cell for SIX hours for swearing once at council official By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:49 AM on 11th November 2009


A grandfather was arrested at dawn and held in a police cell for six hours for using a single swear-word in front of a council official.
Thomas Catcheside, 67, had his fingerprints and DNA taken, before being issued with an £80 fixed-penalty notice.
His arrest followed a dispute with a council official about 'dangerously slippery' communal stairs in his block of flats in Cambridge.
Angry: Tom Catcheside, 67, who was arrested in a dawn raid for using a single swear word in front of a council official, with his wife, Deb
Mr Catcheside, who is chairman of his residents' group, has been campaigning for three years for safety improvements.
But when an official visiting the site prevented him from listening to a phone call to his supervisor on October 30, he finally lost his temper and said: 'Don't you tell me what I can and can't do in my own ****ing place.'
The official complained of feeling 'threatened' and six days later Mr Catcheside was arrested at 5.35am on suspicion of 'causing harassment, alarm or distress in a public place'.

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The former lorry driver, still in his dressing gown, was marched into his bedroom, where his wife Deborah, 62, was asleep, and ordered to get changed before being driven away in a police van.

He was then held in a windowless-cell for six hours before being given the fixed-penalty notice and released.
Mr Catcheside, who has asthma and high blood pressure, was so distressed that he suffered a panic attack and had to be seen by a police doctor.



Unfair: Mr Catcheside was held in a cell and had his DNA taken
He said: 'My wife and I were asleep when the police arrived. I opened the door and they just barged in.
'I told them to wait a minute but they followed me into my bedroom where my wife was in bed. She was so embarrassed she hid behind a cushion.


'I was frightened and angry as I felt like I was being criminalised. It was so heavy handed.
'The police seem to have trouble catching proper criminals and here they were dragging me down to the station for defending my rights.



'I admit I swore, but I was frustrated because we have been fighting to get these stairs improved for years, writing letter after letter, and the council has taken no notice.'
A Cambridgeshire police spokesman said they had been following 'national policy' in their response.
She added: 'We were responding to reports of an assault, which is a serious offence.
'The suspect was arrested at the earliest possible opportunity, which happened to be at 5.35am.
'There was not enough evidence to suggest he had committed an assault but he admitted to being abusive and was issued with a fine and words of advice about his behaviour.'



Robert Hollingsworth of City Homes, a housing association which runs council housing for Cambridge council, said they had reported the incident to the police because their representative had felt 'threatened'.
'My department has been dealing with Mr Catcheside's complaint for a long time,' he said.


'Despite the fact the stairs are not a danger and no risk has been found, we are looking into covering them with a plastic-like surface which would improve their appearance.'
Mr Catcheside replied: 'We don't want the steps to look better, we want them to be safe.'


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11/11/2009 02:53 AM
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Re: 67 year old man gets dawn police raid for single swear word
PIGS.
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Re: 67 year old man gets dawn police raid for single swear word
Here it comes, right out of Fahrenheit 451
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Re: 67 year old man gets dawn police raid for single swear word
PIGS.
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Sorry, don't blame the pigs. Blame the Brits. They're fucking slaves, the whole lot of them.
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11/11/2009 03:04 AM
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Re: 67 year old man gets dawn police raid for single swear word
And to think I ask the odd powerjunkie cop if he goes back to his car & masturbates while he writes my tickets up.....

Canadian cops aren't 1/10th as bad as US / UK.
we are many
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Fuck the Daily Mail, it's a Conservative shill rag.
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Fuck the Daily Mail, it's a Conservative shill rag.
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Are you saying that the story is false? If not, expose Big Brother daily.
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Fuck the Daily Mail, it's a Conservative shill rag.

Are you saying that the story is false? If not, expose Big Brother daily.
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grizzy Actually I'd say that The Daily Mail is a boring shrill rag.. And yeah, I reckon the story is true.
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