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WATCH: Woman arrested in Union flag row tells GB News she was left 'covered in bruises'
Oct 16, 2025
A woman who was arrested and charged for unfurling a Union Jack flag during a protest at a migrant hotel in Epping has vowed she "will not stop until the country is in a better state".Speaking to GB News, Sarah White said she was "annoyed she didn't have her day in court" after the charges against her were dropped because she wanted to "show the establishment up for what they really are".FULL STORY HERE.
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I'm delighted to be joined in the studio now by Sarah
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Sarah, thank you for joining us. How are you? Yeah, I'm good, thank you, Patrick. Bit annoyed
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I'm annoyed that I didn't get my day in court, to be honest, because I wanted to show the establishment up for what they really are
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So what do you think they were trying to do here? Because it seems bizarre that they would arrest you
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make a big song and dance out of arresting you very publicly, charge you and then drop it because they say they haven't got enough evidence
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Well, they initially arrested me under Section 14, which they totally breached their abuse of powers
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And then I was charged with section 11 and section 12. Well, go on, just explain to us what that is
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So section 11 and section 12 is that I deferred from the route of the procession
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The route of the procession, I asked in the interview, I said, for the benefit of the tape, could you read that out to me
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And they said the commissioner had said that the route was to take place
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from the Bell Hotel to the Civic Centre. And the moment they said that, I knew that there was nothing wrong
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because the Civic Centre is the council offices. So that's where you tried to hang the flag from
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Yeah, and it was the stairs of the Civic Centre that I hung the flag over
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which we do every week at that protest. We do that every single week
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Things had changed in Epping that night. They had brought in other police officers
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It was funny, mainstream media were there. They're not usually there. So we knew that there would be arrests that night
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And lo and behold, I was arrested and so was Callum. And that process for you as well, of course
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you were taken away your kids, weren't you? Do you want to just talk to us a little bit about that
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Because it must have been quite traumatic for you initially. Yeah, to be honest with you, it was an unlawful arrest
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and it was a brutal arrest as well. There was three police officers. I was covered in bruises
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I had bruising all under my jaw here where it got punched. I had bruising all down my leg and all down this arm
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predominantly on this side. The officer on this side was excessive. I did have bruising this side but this side was the worst And then they said we going to de you So they drove me down the road took me to a petrol station opened up the doors took off my cuffs gave me a bottle of water
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and then sat there for 10 minutes and said, we're really sorry
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we're taking you to a station. They took me to Grey's, which is further away
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than what they should have taken me. And then I was kept for 24 hours
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So it was the maximum amount of time that they could keep me. So, as far as I'm aware, what they were trying to do
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was send a message to any woman that wants to go out protesting. If we can arrest her and do that to her and be as forceful as we was
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then yous lot are going to toe the line. Because at the moment in this country, women are rising
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and women are standing up, and that is encouraging more men to come out as well
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Yeah. So you think, really, what they were trying to do was not just silence you, but send a wider message to people as well
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Yeah. And unfortunately for them, what they didn't take into account was
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I'm the wrong person to arrest because it didn't silence me. In fact, when I come out from spending 24 hours in police custody
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Elon Musk had tweeted, and if you've reached the richest man in the world
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you've done something right. So I took one for the team. If it had meant that I'd gone to prison, then so be it
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I will not stop until this country is in a better state. and I would encourage all women to get out and protest
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and do what's right for the future generation. I'm quite noticing as I was reading that, actually
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that you were due to appear at Chelmsford Crown Court. Is that right
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I was told magistrates. Magistrates, oh, right. I was going to say, because it's the same court, I believe
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where the bloke who was from Eritrea, who has now been found guilty of multiple different accounts
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of sexual assault, one of them, of course, against a schoolgirl that ignited a lot of this stuff. Yes. He was at that
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court as well wasn he Yeah recently So he would have been there Do you have any indication of what kind of sentence or punishment that you were lined up to get here Twelve months Right because I think he got
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Twelve months. Twelve months. Yeah. So conceivably, you would have had exactly the same prison sentence..
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And a fine. And a fine. Yeah. For unfurling a union flag from the Civic Centre
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that he got for sexually abusing a schoolgirl. Yeah. It doesn't make sense
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No. And it doesn't make sense at all. But what that's done is it sparked a rage across the country because I think Epping was like the epicentre for all of these protests that are going on up and down the country
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And I believe that's what they were trying to do. They were trying to silence us. So we shut up, we backed down
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And it hasn't it hasn't done that. It's just what it did do was I then got the chance to speak at Tommy Robertson's march on the 13th September to two million people
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I then got driven home by Aunt Middleton. I've then walked half-naked through Whitechapel
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sprayed pink, which everybody see, which again has sparked more talk and more interest
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And now I'm going to have dinner with Ben Habib next week. Right
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And I've joined the advance party. So things have really progressed. And all that's doing is I've now got massive traction
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and I've got a massive platform to now speak on. And we are now, as the Pink Ladies, we are encouraging all of the different areas across the country to come out
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And we're doing one a month, going and seeing more women and gaining big attraction, making protests in all of the areas
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And then eventually, I can't see why most women across this country won't be out in full force
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Well, I mean, it's an incredibly brave thing to do. one of the things that a lot of people have mentioned over the years is that a lot of these
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refugees welcome marches and things they can often see quite a lot of like i'll just say it you know
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middle-class lovey white women who are there saying oh refugees are welcome here a lot of
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people are saying actually do you not necessarily realize that perhaps you are some of the people who are most at threat by some of the uh some of the people people who are in this country illegally We don know who they are and go on and commit these sex crimes And there an aspect of useful idiocy about a lot of those people
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but you are trying to lead the counter to that, aren't you? And you think that you're really
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going to make a difference here because basically people can't silence the women of England
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No, definitely not. And I think when women come out together, when women stand together
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when women rise together, you've got a massive force on your hands because then what happens is it encourages their husbands
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their sons, their fathers to come out and protect us. And because they're thinking, well, if my wife's out protesting... Yeah
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..I've got to go and protect her. Well, you look like a bit of a so-and-so if you were just sitting at home
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Yeah, of course you do. Yeah. So, and, you know, and that is ultimately what we want
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People keep going to me, well, you know, they're not all criminals. No, they're not all criminals, but we don't know who they are
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And let's not forget they've broken into this country. They're undocumented. We don't know who they are and what they're capable of
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And we've got our own criminals to contend with. Our own prisons are overrun
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So we haven't got space for these people. And another thing that I'm campaigning for is if you can give funding to these undocumented men
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and allow them to live in lovely properties or four-star hotels, then what is happening to families with disabled children
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who are having their benefits stripped at every single turn? And that is something that surely everyone can agree on
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whether you're left or right. We can all agree on that. Well, yeah, I would have thought so
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Look, Sarah, thank you very, very much. I'm sorry that you had to go through all of that and especially all the kind of bruising and physical injury
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Well, I am taking things further. I was going to ask, but then I thought we haven't gone to the police about that yet
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So there we go. But I've got that impression. Anyway, all right. Look, thank you very much
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Great to see you. and I hope to see you again very, very soon. We have got a spokesperson from the Crown Prosecution Service
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who said this. This case was charged by the police and the material from the investigation was provided to us
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following a careful review of the case. We determined that our legal test of prosecution was not met
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and have subsequently discontinued with both charges
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