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Bail

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coffeeandpeace · 15/02/2023 17:59

16 year old on bail. Played knock a door run and there was a massive over reaction by police.
What is likely to happen when we check back in at the police station ?

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amylou8 · 16/02/2023 03:42

This doesn't make any sense. Was your son arrested, interviewed and released on pre charge bail? If he's 16 with special needs he should have had an appropriate adult with him. Police don't arrest someone for knocking a door, there must be an allegation of a more substantive offence. You need to get some legal advice, and the best way to do this would be to have a solicitor meet you at the police station when he answers bail, or ask for the duty. You won't have to pay for this. Also go with him and explain he special needs and suggest he needs and appropriate adult present.

America12 · 16/02/2023 06:17

What was he actually arrested for ? Why aren't you answering @coffeeandpeace

EmilyGilmoresSass · 16/02/2023 15:28

coffeeandpeace · 15/02/2023 19:28

Never been in trouble before. The kids were playing knock a door run. There are witness to this. It happened in the space of 10 minutes. They were on the front of my friends house and the house they knocked on the door was about 10 houses away. It's a guy who is constantly complaining about kids

Any wonder. At the age of 16, someone can live out on their own. Yours doesn't even know how to stop knocking doors and running, a game I probably stopped playing before the age of 10 🙄 maybe keep an eye on him and he wouldn't need bailed.

EmilyGilmoresSass · 16/02/2023 15:36

Nimbostratus100 · 15/02/2023 20:21

I sort of hope we will get more, but am afraid the OP wont come back now. I hope this boy is OK. Clearly behaviour was nasty, but it sounds like a SEN kid who has fallen under the radar, isnt in any wort of training, and parent (mum? I assume) doesnt really have any handle on what he should be doing, or what he is doing.

Yes, of course, full sympathy for his victim, but at 16, he needs intervention now, or where is he going to be at 26, 36, etc?

I really hope he gets urgent help

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I'd imagine if he had SEN it would have been mentioned long before it was. Though as a mother of a child with SEN, though much younger, I wouldn't allow her out unsupervised if she was going round doing that. I have kids round my way do it very rarely but now and again. I take no offence from a very young child doing it, given I did it myself many moons ago. I would not however, appreciate a teenager doing it and would likely report it myself.

AllWorkYoPlait · 16/02/2023 17:55

So it wasn't even a one knock and run? 16 is far too old for this stupidity and if this bloke is constantly complaining about kids - which your son almost isn't - maybe it's because he's being harassed by horrible tearaways. Knock down ginger is hardly a jolly joke. At best it's really fucking irritating, at worst it's intimidating and harassment.

Has your son perhaps been causing bother more frequently than you know about?

If someone kept knocking on my door it would probably be me who ended up at the police station. I don't take kindly to teenage bullshit.

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