Mother arrested for theft after confiscating youngsters’s iPads | EUROtoday

A historical past trainer has stated she was arrested and barred from seeing her personal daughters after she confiscated their iPads.

Vanessa Brown, 50, advised LBC that she spent over seven hours in a cell final month as Surrey police investigated a declare that she had stolen the tablets.

She says she was then launched on bail circumstances which barred her from talking to her personal youngsters – as they have been linked to the investigation.

The case was later dropped as police confirmed the iPads belonged to her youngsters.

She advised LBC of her “unspeakable devastation and trauma” which has adopted after she confiscated the iPads to encourage her daughters to deal with their faculty work.

She advised LBC: “At no point did [the officers] think to themselves, ‘Oh, this is a little bit of an overreaction for a moment, confiscating temporarily her [own] iPads and popping over to her mum’s to have a coffee’. It was just a complete overreaction.”

She added: “It was thoroughly unprofessional. They were speaking to my mother, who is in her 80s, like she was a criminal.”

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Surrey police advised LBC that they begun a search operation on March 26 after receiving a report of theft from a person in his 40s, having already been known as out to a “concern for safety”.

Officers tracked the placement of the iPads to Ms Brown’s mom’s home, the place they requested her the place the gadgets have been.

When she stated she didn’t know the place they have been, police arrested her on suspicion of theft earlier than looking and discovering the iPads.

A police spokesperson advised LBC: “The woman was subsequently released on conditional bail while further enquiries were carried out. The police bail conditions included not speaking to her daughters, who were connected to the investigation, while officers carried out their enquiries.

“Following these enquiries, officers discovered that the iPads belonged to the woman’s children and that she was entitled to confiscate items from her own children.”

Ms Brown additionally stated her youngster was pulled out of college by the police – who advised The Guardian this was completed in relation to the preliminary concern for security.

Ms Brown stated: “They were able to send a police car with police officers to my children’s school, they were able to send another police car or two to arrest me… I know people are making reports of thefts, of assaults and very violent crimes in and around our neighbourhood – and they’re not getting a response for days.

“I cannot get to the bottom of why [my arrest] was done in such a quick turnaround – maybe less than an hour. All these police cars and police officers going into address over a completely false report of a theft.”

The Independent has tried to contact Surrey Police for a remark.