Police have paid compensation and apologised to a photojournalist who was handcuffed after being refused permission to take pictures when covering a fire.
In May 2009, Bob Naylor turned up at the scene of a fatal fire on a narrowboat moored on the Kennet and Avon canal at Honeystreet in Wiltshire.
He asked a police sergeant if he could take a picture, but the officer told him that "out of common decency and respect for deceased" he should not.
Naylor accepted the fact, but as he was leaving he was seized from behind, forced to the ground, handcuffed and told he was being arrested for breach of the peace.
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In May 2009, Bob Naylor turned up at the scene of a fatal fire on a narrowboat moored on the Kennet and Avon canal at Honeystreet in Wiltshire.
He asked a police sergeant if he could take a picture, but the officer told him that "out of common decency and respect for deceased" he should not.
Naylor accepted the fact, but as he was leaving he was seized from behind, forced to the ground, handcuffed and told he was being arrested for breach of the peace.
Full article here
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