Carolyn Farrow taken to police station

[ScreamingMeMe]

Long twitter thread here. She's had her electronic devices seized too, and has been accused of being certain posters on Kiwi Farms and Mumsnet

@BernardBlacksWineIceLolly and @BreakWindandFire sorry to tag you but she's been accused of being you!

We all know who this will be, but as Caroline says, please don't speculate/discuss them.

twitter.com/CF_Farrow/status/1577092705154666496?t=Cv7tRv3YdqIogpXT_MSwZQ&s=19

Yes, he has a duty of care. Imagine the fuss if he released her and she did harm herself and maybe died. He'd be well and truly in the shit then.

Who are you talking to?

What law do you think bans feeling hostile?

Yes loiuse and Adrian yelland got damages from the Met police

It's Caroline Farrow today. Who will it be tomorrow?

Wrong question. The question you are missing is "who was it yesterday? Who is it today?"
I don't think any of you have ever been taken to a cop shop.
Shit like this happens to working class folk with depressing regularity. But as they're not yummy mummies with a high profile, nobody's taking to MN to defend them.

Disliking her views doesn't make me willing to throw her under a bus btw.
Of course she shouldn't have been arrested & treated like this - but she has the resources to not only escape whatever penalties the police might have trumped up mistakenly felt she was due, but to capitalise on this incident to promote her 'brand'.

It's the complaint who should be sectioned, given their levels of delusion and paranoia. And the police damn well ought to recognise this.

Wishing all the best to Caro and her family.

wait they have no evidience but theyre asking her if shes done anything

bloody extreme

We always suspected that something like this was going to happen because we (Adrian Yalland, her, me) are targeted by a deeply obsessive, abusive, man who thinks the police can be summoned upon demand

And that deeply obsessive man was right - he did summon the police on demand and they jumped to it. I know you can't say who he is, but he's obviously got friends in the Surrey police force.

I'd never heard of Caroline Farrow, but am appalled by the content of her tweets and that the British police are being used (and allowing themselves to be used) by malicious misogynists for the purposed of intimidating women and their children. What on Earth is this country coming to?

Well said @ancientgran. As above - PP don't understand how police procedure works, & are conflating a piece of legally required speech with the misconduct of an apparently wrongful arrest.

@ancientgran
Yes, he has a duty of care. Imagine the fuss if he released her and she did harm herself and maybe died. He'd be well and truly in the shit then.

Exactly

Lots of MNers have been involved with the police - on both sides of the counter. And in the court system. And in the court reporting system. That's why we know what the processes are and can see exactly how much the police have fucked up here.

This is the 21century version of witch hunting/witch trials.

Women do something which males don't like and - "burn them'

Goodness me, with all the issues going on in the police force right now, I would have thought they have a hell of a lot more to focus on. There must be lawyers rubbing their hands with glee at taking these spurious claims on. With all the think crimes rolling about out there, they will be tripping over one another. 'I see your unfair dismissal and raise you my gender status and tenuous mental health'. Oh and if a PC wants to question me, I'm in all day but bring your own teabags.

In the current climate with all the increased scrutiny, let's hope the police realise very quickly just how much they have fucked up. But, actually it's time all of this was brought to a much wider audience. We don't pay our taxes for a police force to act like a private security firm.
There are lots of good people in the police and the legal system. Incidents that make a mockery of the justice system, bring all of them in disrepute and they are reaching the end of their tether with it too.

Made me think of this....

Then he failed in his duty of care. In answer to a positive response of thoughts of self harm then he should have referred to duty health care.

Not say he would send her back to the cells to think about her answer and that he would section her.

Excuse me but I am Caroline Farrow.

Imagine being so oppressed you can make an unsubstantiated allegation and have the police harass your enemies.

What are you talking about? You're trying to say it doesn't matter because Caroline is middle class? What? It would matter more if it happened to someone else, and because I am concerned about the person it's happening to and not some hypothetical less middle class person it's not currently happening to then... something?

You seem confused, tbh. Must be hard to manage the cognitive dissonance, I imagine: "harassing women is wrong! but she's the wrong kind of woman! but it's wrong! but she's wrong!" Maybe go and lie down for a bit and come back when you've found your moral backbone.

Isn't there a crime about wasting police time? Using the police as a harassment tool should qualify.

I can see that the Police, if they receive serious sounding allegations, perhaps using lawyerly terms, would feel under an obligation to act. Real crime happens and to some extent they can be damned if they do and damned if they don't. However there have been too many allegations, one obviously one was Mimmymum/Miranda, where distress and more has happened to the person who was accused, yet no penalty seems to have been levered on the accuser.

Agree with her or not, Caroline is a strong woman. Perhaps her problem is that as far as some men are concerned, she does not confirm to gender stereotypes.

Tbf that thread becomes near impossible to follow due to what is more or less the online equivalent of a Punch and Judy show in the middle.

I’m tempted to make a joke about crocodiles and sausages but I’m not willing to give anyone the opportunity to wilfully misunderstand me.

Hopefully, wasting police time is still a crime, because there is far more evidence of that in relation to the person who reported Caroline than there is of Caroline doing anything illegal.

www.bestcriminaldefencebarrister.co.uk/criminal-defence-barrister-blog/2021/wasting-police-time-s5-2-criminal-law-act-1967/?amp=1

Absolutely true. They are not being used at all, they relish this, it’s an opportunity. Any woman who can’t see the misogyny in the police force is deluded. The high rate of domestic violence by police officers speaks volumes. So does their persistent failure to take crimes like stalking seriously when they’re perpetrated against women.

Some ''duty of care''.

She told him that she'd thought of self harming, and he didn't like her answer so he got another one out her and then sent her on her way.

Seems a bit dangerous?

Surrey Police you say?
Surrey Police who are ranked higher in Stonewall’s top employer list than Sussex Police?
Attention all feminists in Leicestershire - brace yourself for a knock on the door.

I’d have liked to have seen him section her. Unless he’s an AMHP or has consulted a medical professional first.

feeling that you might self harm as a result of the stress/current situation is not going to result in a hospital stay. At best he could have kept hold of her for a bit longer, but only after she’d been assessed by someone else to actually be a risk to herself.

If this has happened as stated it reads as quite threatening.

it’s horrifying that they have acted in this manner