'I could be taken away again!'  Pensioner emotional as she recalls hate crime arrest

'I could be taken away again!'  Pensioner emotional as she recalls hate crime arrest
Gabrielle Wilde

By Gabrielle Wilde


Published: 15/04/2024

- 10:59

The Scottish Government has introduced a new law against using hateful slurs

A pensioner has been left feeling very emotional after she was wrongly accused of breaking Scottish hate crime law and taken to the police station

Morag McDougall Brown, 74, said: "On Tuesday morning, two officers appeared at my door that I knew them from previous incidents where had been here. They said they were here to arrest me and when I asked why they couldn't tell me."They said they would need to take me to an interview room at a police station and all they could say was there has been an allegation

"I was unaware of what was happening to me I asked them what would happen if I didn't come? They said we'd need to handcuff you."

She later added: "I think it's awful because she could maybe do that tomorrow and I could be taken away again because they said that they can't interview me in my own home because of the new law.

"They had to take me to a police station where I was searched. I was read my rights. Then it was only in the interview room that they told me it was an allegation that my neighbour had made a complaint and said that I had called her that name."

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