Citizen's arrest charge complaint.A MAN charged with assault after making a citizen's arrest cit·i·zen's arrest n. An arrest made by a citizen, for whom legal authority arises from the fact of citizenship, rather than by an officer of the law. on a youth he believed was throwing apples has complained to the police watchdog. Roland Digby, 49, said a volley volley /vol·ley/ (vol´e) a number of simultaneous muscle twitches or nerve impulses all caused by the same stimulus. vol·ley n. of crab apples was hurled at his house in Royston, Hertfordshire Coordinates: Royston is a town in the east of England in Hertfordshire, England. It is situated just west of the Greenwich Meridian, which passes through the point where the bypass meets the original A505 alignment. , three times in the same week. On the third occasion, he gave chase to a group of youths he thought were responsible. He said: "I went out of the house and followed this group of youths. "I put my hand on the shoulder of the leader and said: 'You can wait with me until the police get here. I'm placing you under citizen's arrest'." When the youth put up a struggle, Digby said he held him in a half-nelson and then punched another youth in the face. He has complained to the police and to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. He said: " I still can't see that I've done anything wrong." |
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