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When six police officers gathered
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outside their home in Bornewood last
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January, Rosalind Lavine and Maxi Allen
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feared they'd come bearing terrible
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news. A frightening moment they shared
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Honestly, my first thought was that my
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daughter was dead and that they'd come
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to tell me. I couldn't think of any
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other reason why there would be six
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officers at my door. Instead, they'd
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come to arrest them due to complaints
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the couple had made on social media
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surrounding her primary school. They
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were in police custody for hours and
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questioned on suspicion of harassment
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and malicious communications.
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5 weeks later, the case was dropped and
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they've now been awarded £20,000 in
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damages by Hartford Cheer Police.
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They said to us um that this was a much
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higher settlement than what you would
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normally expect to get in a an unlawful
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arrest case. It wasn't about the money
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for us. It was about the liability. Um,
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the police are not a tool to be used to
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silence people who you don't like. Um,
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which is what we think happened here.
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The police admitted they were wrong to
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arrest them. The families say they hope
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similar mistakes aren't repeated. Graham
