1 week ago Mother ‘held in police cell for seven hours after confiscating daughters’ iPads’

Vanessa Brown said she had suffered sleepless nights as a result of the incident on March 26.

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1 week ago UK woman says she was arrested after confiscating her daughters’ iPads

Vanessa Brown called police response in Cobham, Surrey, ‘a complete overreaction’ that left her ‘catatonic’A history teacher has said she was arrested and blocked from seeing her daughters after she confiscated their iPads.Vanessa Brown, 50, described her “unspeakable devastation and trauma” after spending seven-and-a-half hours in a cell on 26 March after a claim that she had stolen two iPads. She was later released with bail conditions that barred her from speaking to anyone connected to the investigation – including her children – until the case was dropped.Brown told LBC she had taken the iPads to encourage her daughters to focus on their schoolwork. Surrey police tracked the devices to Brown’s mother’s house in Cobham, Surrey, and later accepted the devices belonged to her children and she was “entitled” to confiscate them. “I find it quite traumatic even talking about this now,” Brown said. “At no point did [the officers] think to themselves, ‘Oh, this is a little bit of an ov...

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1 week ago Mum spends seven hours in police cell after 'confiscating her daughters' iPads'

Vanessa Brown, a 50-year-old mother of two, says she was arrested and taken to a police station after being accused of stealing her children's iPads.

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1 week ago Mum held in police cell for seven hours for 'confiscating her daughters' iPads'

Mum-of-two Vanessa Brown, 50, has told how she was arrested and taken to Staines police station in Surrey after being accused of stealing her own children's iPads

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1 week ago Mum from Surrey arrested and held in cell for seven hours after confiscating kids’ iPads

Vanessa Brown was accused of stealing the devices after taking them away to encourage her children to focus on schoolwork

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3 w. ago Revealed: The school WhatsApp messages that led to six police officers raiding 'reasonable' couple's home before arresting them and holding them in a cell for 11 hours

Friends of a couple arrested over their comments made in a school WhatsApp group have spoken of their 'shock and anger' over the incident.

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