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Evening Standard
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Anthony France

Parents get £20,000 for ‘unlawful’ arrest after complaining about school on WhatsApp

A police force has admitted the unlawful arrest of two parents who complained about their daughter’s primary school on WhatsApp.

Maxie Allen, 50, and his partner Rosalind Levine, 47, say they were detained by six uniformed officers and held at a police station for 11 hours.

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