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Connor Teale & Neil Shaw & Daniel Hall

Man says daughter reported to police for singing Christmas song in the street

A man has claimed that his daughter was reported to the police for 'religious hatred' after she sang a Christmas song in the street.

13-year-old Ciara Berry was walking to school on October 17 when she starting singing a Christmas song with a few of her friends, according to her dad Matt. Mr Berry, from Berry Brow in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, claims that Ciara was overheard by a Jehovah's Witness known to the family.

He claims that his daughter and her friends were later told by the wife of the man who heard the song that she would call the police over what had happened. Matt told Yorkshire Live : "It's a right load of trouble over nothing.

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