Anyone read about the mum getting arrested for taking her dcs ipads?

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I'm so confused by this story, parents are constantly told to be more proactive around tech - I've often confiscated screens myself & that police are too stretched to deal with stolen cars etc.

www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/surrey-police-uk-mother-arrested-childs-ipad-vanessa-brown/

Reading between the lines, it seems that the dad likely bought the kids ipads (hence could track location) that therefore belonged to the kids.

He maliciously reported them stolen (I'm sure he would have known the address of his ex's mum. Probably one of kids told him mum had taken them).

The mum quite rightfully said she didn't know the whereabouts of stolen ipads because why would she know about stolen ipads? She had taken her kids ipads.

I hope the man who made the (malicious) call to the police is charged with wasting police time. It is the only way to make amends in this ridiculous scenario!!

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More than capable of explaining, doesn't actually equal explaining.

It sound like you'd still argue the case if the body cam footage was out there. But police very rarely release that. We're it America when they release it at the drop of a hat.

Did anyone read the statement from Surrey(?) Police on social media explaining it all. Not at all a case of any police needing fired. They’d have had better things to do and would have been annoyed at their time being wasted on this nonsense

So after releasing the woman after several hours she was told not to speak to her children? What planet are these police on? How can they expect a mother not to speak to her children (unless she has a restraining order against her)?
That police statement is only throwing up more questions. Were all those welfare calls to one address and the school warranted? Did the school have any welfare concerns? Is everyone that had to be attended by welfare officers ok?

Yes I did. Which is why i said there is more to this than what the media are printing. But people seem to be ignoring that and as usual blaming the men (not just one abusive ex but two) and even saying one must be a policeman.

Police don't do a welfare check on flimsy reasons. Police don't turn up to a school to do a welfare check on flimsy reasons. The woman refused to cooperate and lied to the police.

There is so much more to this than what the media are telling us.

"There was a 3 hour delay between her solicitor being notified"...

Surrey Police have an awful reputation for overzealous treatment of mothers. I know of many similar cases to this.

The consequence would be that he wouldn't be allowed to make any new applications without permission of the court.

The police put out a statement about this, saying social media was misrepresenting it. I can't remember exactly what it said, but it seemed reasonable sensible.

The main fault was the ex clearly. I doubt extremely that he wasn't totally aware of the situation. I can't remember whether the police report said he'd been cautioned for wasting police time or just spoken to, but they were pretty clear that they felt it was on him.
But mum could have avoided it by saying the true situation. They won't have walked up and arrested her without and chance for her to say "the only iPads here are the kids and they're confiscated due to xyz". I don't believe it didn't occur to her at any point that if two iPads were showing on the app as inside, which they told her, that they were her kids. She denied she had iPads, I suspect more than once.
For what end she denied it I cannot think of any sane reason.
I suppose she could have been hoping that it would come back on her ex, in the way it has, but it's a risky strategy, because you can't predict SM.

Sounds like a right mess, I feel sorry for the kids, no wonder they are playing up.

Dad sounds like a controlling arse but even he probably didn't think it would escalate this much!

They weren't called initially about the iPads, they were called as there was some fear to someone's safety. They even had an ambulance called. It was whilst the police were there that the iPads were mentioned and tracked.

The welfare check was made at address (a), where the man was. He then claimed the ipads were stolen and were at address (b), which is where the police went to ask the mother about them.

We don't know why the welfare check was carried out - it could be him accusing her, or a neighbour calling the police.

Yes, Caroline Farrow for starters.

I don’t know, I’ve spent the odd night in a cell during my misspent youth - it’s boring and not very comfortable but to say it’s traumatising is a stretch.

This is ridiculous, what an absolute embarrassment for the police, I bet the officers involved are getting the absolute piss ripped out of them daily after this! I’ve got friends who’ve been burgled where the police didn’t even attend the same day.

However I think the (presumably) ex should be prosecuted for wasting police time, he sounds controlling and abusive and he’ll be loving that she got arrested and was held for 7 hours. Someone needs to wipe that stupid smug smile off his face

The police should be interviewing the 40 year old man for wasting police time.