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Jules Mattsson compensated for military parade photo ban
From time to time FACT has had occasion to be critical of young people who are browbeaten by police pressure. On this occasion we salute the action and determination of a young photographer who when asked by the police to stop photographing a military parade stood his ground. Despite the public event taking place in the middle of the town centre, Metropolitan Police officers claimed it was unlawful to photograph the parade. Various reasons were given for the request including being a “terrorist threat” and for taking pictures of children who formed part ...
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A head teacher with cancer was banned from parks, libraries and leisure centres after his resentful assistant made false allegations that he bullied her, an employment tribunal found.
James Walker, a popular and long-serving head, was driven to the brink of suicide when his employers treated him in a manner “which bordered callousness”, a judge said. While he was suspended and awaiting the outcome of an investigation, his office was cleared and the contents put into rubbish bags, which the tribunal decided was “inexcusable”. None of his personal items was returned by the London ...
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The following has been extracted from the Irish Times website here.
A dance teacher has been charged with making a false accusation that he was groped by X-Factor judge Louis Walsh in the toilets of a Dublin nightclub.
Leonard Watters (24), a father of two from Navan, Co Meath, of no fixed address, was arrested in his home town on Tuesday, after allegedly making an unfounded claim to the Garda that Mr Walsh had assaulted him in the Krystle nightclub, after a Westlife concert in the O2 in April.
He was brought before Dublin District Court yesterday afternoon and charged under section 12 ...
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