Gunner: My Life in Cricket

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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. She received an unsympathetic response, with PC “A” not only urging Rebecca to immediately cease contact with Andrew – but in fact threatening Rebecca with action for having herself disclosed the information to Andrew. Dean, whilst correctly stating that he had nothing to hide, maintained his right not to have to give his name to the Officer, to which PC Healey responded: “It’s entirely up to you mate, you can either tell me your details, or I’ll just arrest you and then we’ll find them out at the Police Station. Instead, Cheshire Constabulary approached this case in the usual truculent way the Police as an institution do to even clearly meritorious claims, offering excuses instead of real apologies, displaying enmity rather than empathy, and adding to the family’s stress by forcing them into the combative arena of litigation. From their behaviour, Emily now began to guess that the men were indeed Police Officers, although this was hardly reassuring for her.

As this was happening, PS Rees leant on Zac’s back with his whole body weight, pressing Zac against the car, and with his left hand aggressively gripped Zac’s jacket hood, pulling it tight around his neck (and restricting Zac’s breathing). It was so straightforward that they were even able to close the investigation without the necessity of involving Andrew himself. A man, believed to be this woman’s son, then entered the building society and stood next to her and began to stare at Jervon, before removing his belt and wrapping it around his fist in a clearly intimidatory manner. In November 2022, my client Ross was interviewed by Sussex Police in respect of an allegation of Common Assault. Zac disputed that he smoked Cannabis or allowed anyone else to smoke Cannabis in his vehicle, and tol

Zac now reluctantly decided to do as he had been asked so as to end this Police harassment, confident that all their checks would establish that he was qualified to drive, he was insured and that his vehicle was roadworthy. PC Miller spoke with Peter’s neighbour, who alleged that Peter had approached him with what appeared to be a knife in his pocket and had threatened people. As regular readers of this blog will know, the integrity of the home is a fundamental principle of the law of England and Wales which I am proud to uphold on behalf of those many clients of mine who have faced a Police ‘invasion’ of their property and privacy. He represented Middlesex 90 times from 1975 to 1980/81 and was capped in 1977 before moving to Sussex who he represented 195 times between 1981 and 1990. Ross was then immediately released and the underlying proceedings against him adjourned to a later date.

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. He was able to make arrangements for a friend, who was a taxi driver, to drive to Gatwick Airport, pick up his family and bring them home. On no-one’s honest analysis, can refusing to give your name to a nosey Police Constable amount to an “assault, affray or riot”. 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.Jervon then said that he did not want to talk to the officers unless he was under arrest and referred to wanting a solicitor. Unfortunately for myself and my children our justice was going to be a box of Maltesers as a way of a pathetic apology. Furthermore, there was no evidence from the complainant, Peter’s neighbour, that he had actually seen Peter holding or threatening to use a ‘knife’. At this time, PC Ngo also seized Zac’s mobile phone, as Officers always like to be in control of all recording devices in the vicinity, if they can help it.