UK: Arrested Dads Get Apology, Compensation

January 15th, 2010 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Almost two years ago, in March of 2008, three men were arrested in Wolverhampton, U.K. Their crime? Distributing leaflets protesting abuse of fathers by that country's family courts and police. Their protest was at all times peaceful and lawful, but the police didn't like it, so off to jail they went. Of course none was convicted of any offense, but to the police, that was probably not the point. The point was to quash dissent and arrest alone effectively accomplished that. Read an account here.

At the time, Glenn did a couple of pieces on the men and their protest here and here.

Now it turns out the police have completed their investigation into their own misbehavior and found that what they (the police) did was wrong. They've issued a public apology to the three men and paid compensation.

As this article says, it's a small victory, but the larger picture must include the initial police response which was to arrest three fathers who weren't even arguably doing anything wrong. Apologies and compensation are nice; sending a clear message that, if you dare to publicize the many abuses of family courts, you will go to jail, is yet another.

From Glen Sacks Website

(It's great they admit wrong doing here. The police need to follow the laws and not just make one up when they want to throw some men in jail)