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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Met pays out to black brothers searched and handcuffed outside home

Leon (left) and Nicholas Peart.
Leon (left) and Nicholas Peart. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

The Metropolitan police has settled a complaint by black brothers who were stopped, searched and handcuffed outside their family home.

Nicholas Peart, 24, and Leon Peart, 20, both black, are Christians who regularly attend church and say they have never smoked tobacco let alone taken drugs. They told of their feelings of trauma and humiliation after about 20 minutes in handcuffs when arrested outside in Chingford, east London.

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