Judge admonishes police

Christian Concern  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Apr 2014
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A former teacher, who was ordered by a police constable to stop preaching outside Banbury Magistrates Court House, had the charges of assault and breach of the peace against him dismissed by Oxford Magistrates Court on February 11.

The officer approached Bill Edwards, aged 73, when he was preaching outside the Court House and asked him to move on, as some people inside the building found his preaching ‘offensive’. He refused, after which the constable told him that he would be arrested. Mr Edwards followed her into the police station a short distance away, where he was grabbed by six officers and taken to the ground and arrested.

At the hearing, the District Judge at Oxford Magistrates Court told Mr Edwards that he had no case to answer, and expressed doubt that the officer had acted in the execution of her duty.

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