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April 12, 2025 UKR Editor GOVERNMENT 0

More freedom on display in the UK…

STEVE WATSON

A mother was arrested and jailed for seven hours after she confiscated iPads from her own children because she wanted them to concentrate on their homework.

Yes, really.

It’s the latest insane story of police overreach from the backwards UK, where stabbings are just an everyday occurrence and robberies are not even investigated, but people saying mean words about the ‘wrong’ things are thrown in prison.

Now responsible parenting is the target.

The LBC report notes:

History teacher Vanessa Brown, 50, spent seven-and-a-half hours in a custody cell on March 26 this year, following a claim she had stolen two iPads which were traced to her mother’s house in Cobham, Surrey.

Yet it transpired that the two devices belonged to her daughters, and Ms Brown had merely confiscated them to encourage them to focus on their schoolwork, a fact Surrey Police has now acknowledged.

“I find it quite traumatic even talking about this now,” Ms Brown recalled.

“At no point did they [the officers] think to themselves, ‘Oh, this is a little bit of an overreaction for a moment, confiscating temporarily her iPads and popping over to her mum’s to have a coffee’. It was just a complete overreaction.

It isn’t made exactly clear who reported the iPads stolen, but it seems to have been the ex-partner of the woman.

In any case, why on Earth did police waste their time on this? Isn’t there enough actual crime to deal with?

The police also prevented the woman from speaking to her own children following the accusation. They also pulled one of the children out of school for questioning.

Neil O’Brien, a Tory MP and shadow education minister, commented on the incident, noting “This is beyond absurd. People are having phones snatched all the time and police won’t follow up even when they know where they are, yet a law abiding person can end up in a cell for hours on end for taking away their own kids’ iPads.”

Richard Tice, the deputy Reform UK leader, said that the “world has gone mad,”adding that “Police need to catch real criminals not mums looking after their children!”

Greg Smith, the shadow business minister, added his criticism, remarking “Absolutely mad. A parent chooses when their child gets screen time and anything that challenges that is absolutely bonkers.”

Harry Miller, a former police officer who works with the free speech campaign group Fair Cop, urged that police in the UK are becoming “Stasi like”.

“They have become agents of a state orthodoxy rather than upholders of the law. It shows a complete lack of awareness of what theft is – a parent confiscating an iPad doesn’t even come close to meeting that definition,” he urged.

“I think they should do more than apologise and remove themselves from office, because operating like that is a form of kidnap,” Miller continued.

“They repeatedly overreach and they seem to have taken it upon themselves to become social engineers. That is not the role of the police,” he further asserted.

Don’t worry, because soon enough, British authorities will have the ability to predict which responsible mothers are going to confiscate tablets from their kids before they do it.

Then they’ll be dealt with accordingly.

The incident comes on the heels of another shocking story of parents being arrested for criticising their children’s school in a WhatsApp group.

JD Vance was right, the UK now operates within a full on dystopian apparatus:

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Mother Arrested for Theft and Held in Cell for Seven Hours for Confiscating Own Children’s iPads

 

WILL JONES

A mother of two was arrested for theft and held in a police custody cell for more than seven hours after she confiscated two iPads belonging to her own children. The Mail has the story.

Vanessa Brown, a 50 year-old history teacher, revealed the “unspeakable devastation and trauma” she suffered after being taken to Staines police station.

Ms Brown was searched and had custody photographs and fingerprints taken after taking away her daughters’ devices in an attempt to ensure they were not distracted from their studies.

Surrey Police, who also visited the children’s school, pulling one of Ms Brown’s daughters out of class, have since acknowledged their error.

Ms Brown was apprehended at her mother’s home in Cobham, Surrey, to which she was eventually returned only after a 12-hour ordeal that, due to her bail conditions, threatened to prevent her from seeing her children on Mother’s Day.

The incident, which follows the arrest of a couple in Hertfordshire over complaints they made about their daughter’s primary school, is likely to raise further questions about police priorities.

“I find it quite traumatic even talking about this now,” Ms Brown told LBC.

“They were able to send a police car with police officers to my children’s school, they were able to send another police car or two to arrest me.

“I know people are making reports of thefts, of assaults and very violent crimes in and around our neighbourhood, and they’re not getting a response for days.

“I cannot get to the bottom of why it was done in such a quick turnaround, maybe less than an hour – all these police cars and police officers going to an address over a completely false report of a theft.”

She said the heavy-handed approach of police, who took more than 24 hours from the moment she was arrested to inform her that no further action would be taken, had left her in a ‘catatonic state’.

“At no point did they think to themselves, ‘Oh, this is a little bit of an overreaction,’” said Ms Brown. “It was thoroughly unprofessional. They were speaking to my mother, who is in her 80s, like she was a criminal.”

This was yet another story I had to double check wasn’t published on April 1st. It’s worth reading in full. (Apparently, a Surrey Police spokesman said that a man in his 40s “had alerted them to the possible theft of the iPads, prompting a search for the device”. Which raises more questions than it answers, frankly.)

Meanwhile, 265 ‘Turkish barbers’ and other high street cash-intensive businesses have been raided by police in a three-week crackdown on money laundering and modern slavery, leading to dozens of people being arrested and more than £1 million frozen. “We’ve got powers to deal with them but there’s so many we can’t cope,” one officer told reporters. “They seem to be popping up everywhere from Iranian, Iraqi, Kurdistan, seems to be sort of in this general area.” Presumably this is just the latest lovely contribution of illegal immigration to our diverse 21st-century utopia.

Fortunately, though, police officers in Surrey have a spare moment to raid the home of a responsible parent confiscating her distracted youngsters’ devices. And in Hertfordshire, to turn up en masse and arrest parents who dare to criticise their child’s school on WhatsApp. Ever get the feeling police priorities have got a little skewed somewhere along the line?

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