Martin Daubney mocked the Prime Minister on GB News today as he said: “Another day in Sir Keir Starmer’s free speech nation".
The remark came in reaction to the case of Hertfordshire couple Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine, who were arrested earlier this year over WhatsApp messages about their daughter’s primary school.
The couple have now been awarded £20,000 in damages following the police raid.
Connie Shaw, external affairs officer at the Free Speech Union, told Martin that the case has serious free speech implications and she joined him in blasting the wrongful arrests.
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Speaking on The People's Channel, Martin fumed: "Here we go again. The police really should be solving real crimes like burglaries, robberies, car theft and the like.
"Instead, now they're getting their snouts stuck into WhatsApp groups."
Ms Shaw said: “Six police officers, three vans, seize devices, take them to the station, take DNA, fingerprints, mugshots, all over messages in a school WhatsApp group.
“It was as though the police were behaving like there was a terrorist cell operating in their house.”
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The investigation reportedly lasted five weeks before it was dropped due to a lack of evidence, with the couple saying they were detained for over 11 hours.
Ms Shaw said: “Rosalind asked the first time she was interviewed, ‘what’s the evidence?’ They said, ‘We’re still looking through it'."
Martin said: "Another day in Sir Keir Starmer’s free speech nation, really.”
He continued: “The state of the nation now is people can’t get hold of a copper for a bonafide reason, a street robbery or theft, yet six officers raid a home over WhatsApp comments.”
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Ms Shaw added that the couple had been emailing the school governors over changes to the primary school leadership and had been warned to stop contacting the school so frequently.
“They were only allowed to email, then told they couldn’t email, and six months later the police raided their house,” she said.
The couple’s daughter has epilepsy, making access to the school particularly important, Ms Shaw explained.
She said: "Every time something like this happens, we say, 'surely this must be the last time'.
"But The Daily Mail has just done a really brilliant investigation into which areas of the country are most zealously policed by police who want to crack down on free speech.
"One of our big public cases this year was Robert Moss from Staffordshire. So even in the lowest area, you are still at risk of having your house raided.
"Robert Moss. He had his house raided after he criticised his former employer, and we're helping him as well.
"So it's a postcode lottery, but you're not safe anywhere."
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