A chief constable has apologised to a journalist after she was wrongly arrested while covering a 'Just Stop Oil' protest.
Charlie Hall, who heads Hertfordshire Police, wrote to LBC reporter Charlotte Lynch, stating that "on this occasion we clearly got things wrong". The force received a wave of backlash after Ms Lynch described how she was handcuffed and left in a cell on suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance - even though she showed officers her media accreditation.
Ms Lynch was reporting on the activists from a road bridge over junction 21 on the M25, in Hertfordhire, for roughly 45 minutes on November 8 when she was approached and questioned by two officers. Just a day before the incident, documentarian Rich Felgate and photographer Tom Bowles were arrested for trying to capture footage of the activists.
