A mother today claimed she was thrown to the ground by six policemen and held in a cell for eight hours after being stopped and searched because she did not have enough money on her Oyster card to cover her bus fare.
Ann Roberts, 38, claims she was treated "violently" by Met officers and wrongly accused of fraud and being a crack cocaine user - allegations she was later cleared of.
Mrs Roberts, who has an 18-year-old son, claims the police stop-and-search power is being used in a racist way. She has launched a landmark legal challenge, asking the High Court to rule it incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
She was on her way home from work in September 2010 when she was taken off by a conductor because she did not have enough on her Oyster card. Mrs Roberts, from Edmonton, then a college special needs assistant in Tottenham, was told she must be searched as she was in a gang and knife crime hotspot. Not wanting to be seen by colleagues or students, she asked to go to a police station. Full story...
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Ann Roberts, 38, claims she was treated "violently" by Met officers and wrongly accused of fraud and being a crack cocaine user - allegations she was later cleared of.
Mrs Roberts, who has an 18-year-old son, claims the police stop-and-search power is being used in a racist way. She has launched a landmark legal challenge, asking the High Court to rule it incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
She was on her way home from work in September 2010 when she was taken off by a conductor because she did not have enough on her Oyster card. Mrs Roberts, from Edmonton, then a college special needs assistant in Tottenham, was told she must be searched as she was in a gang and knife crime hotspot. Not wanting to be seen by colleagues or students, she asked to go to a police station. Full story...
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