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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Met police pays out after arrest of teenager wrongly linked to protest

Xanthe Wells
Xanthe Wells is now studying law and criminology at university. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Scotland Yard has paid £5,000 in an out-of-court settlement after allegedly unlawfully imprisoning a 17-year-old who was wrongly accused of being at a pro-Palestine protest where a building was spray-painted.

The case is said by civil liberties campaigners to be compelling evidence of a heavy-handed approach by the Met to the policing of demonstrations over the last year.

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