Businessman arrested over 'anti-gypsy' email he did not even write
A businessman became the subject of a £12,000 police investigation after council officials accused him of being “offensive” to gypsies in an email he had not even written.
The 45-year-old IT company manager, who does not want to be named, was arrested in front of his wife and young son, was fingerprinted and had his DNA taken.
It came after staff at Rother District Council in East Sussex declared the phrase “It’s the “do as you likey” attitude that I am against” – sent in an email to their planning department – was potentially racist because “likey” rhymes with the derogatory word “pikey”.
The businessman was held in a cell for four hours until officers established he had nothing to do with the email, which had been sent by one of his then workers, Paul Osmond, from a company computer.
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FFS, it is wasn't such a serious breach of this poor chaps liberty, the childishness of the councils attitude would almost make me snigger, oops.
ReplyDeleteIts not so much that, its the "do as you pikey" attitude of the police in this matter. Bastards!
ReplyDeleteEven the police are scared of Gypsies and such fears of these people was inside their system well before any half-witted Human Rights Act came into being giving far more rights to every minority than to those who have resided in the UK all their working lives and paid tax.
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