DH was incorrectly told he was being charged for a crime.

[Amae]

Hi all,

looking for some advice:

DH was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder (was not involved at all), interviewed and released. A few days later he was called by a police officer who informed him that the CPS were charging him and the officer needed to hand-deliver a charge sheet for court.

DH and officer agreed a time and date for him to deliver the charge sheet but the officer never arrived. After numerous calls from my husband to try and contact him, he eventually answered and informed him he'd been 'mistakenly charged' and to completely disregard any previous communications.

My husband runs his own business and we have young children, for weeks we were under the impression he was being charged for a crime he did not commit- the amount of stress this caused for both of us was absolutely huge.

Worth mentioning that when he was arrested, this was after our family home had been dawn raided in the early hours.

DH keeps getting emails about making a claim about being 'mistreated by the police' so we are curious as to whether we have any grounds to persue this or is it a complete waste of time?

Thankyou for taking the time to read all of this, and advice is greatly appreciated.

Violent disorder is not something that you get mistakenly arrested for retrospectively.

It is if the face they have for you on a database "matches" one they scraped from surveillance at the scene.

It would be very unusual however to then do a dawn raid unless someone had been very seriously injured or killed in the punch up or there had been looting or rioting. The OP has said the police turned up weeks after the fracas in the early hours of the morning.

Well you say that. But 5 officers were needed to seize Graham Linehan on his return to (his home in) the UK.

Maybe the OPs DH posted something on Twitter ?

As you can see, trying to justify police action can be a chore.