Manchester police arrested and charged a gardener for possessing an “offensive weapon”, with interrogating officers refusing to accept his tools had a purpose and even asking to have what an allotment garden is explained to them.
35-year-old Theatre worker Samuel Rowe of Manchester, England says he is seeking a legal means to have a police caution removed from his criminal record because he believes it will harm his ability to find work in future after he was arrested and interrogated while gardening in his own garden.
Rowe told The Guardian that he’d walked home from his allotment on a community garden in July with a trug of vegetables and had got to work trimming his domestic garden hedge when officers arrived, pushed him up
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