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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Charlotte Cripps

Inside the scandals of the school WhatsApp group – and what you really can’t say

Working parents like me end up drowning in the ping after ping of ‘friendly reminders’ on class WhatsApps - (Getty/iStock)

A couple who were “unlawfully arrested” for criticising their daughter’s primary school on a parent WhatsApp group have received a £20,000 payout from Hertfordshire Police.

Times Radio producer Maxie Allen, 50, and his partner Rosalind Levine, 46, were stunned when they were led away by six uniformed police officers in January on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications and detained by police for 11 hours, after the school reported them.

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