It is a criminal offence in the United Kingdom to abscond or escape from lawful custody – two separate ways of phrasing the same common law offence. Most typically, we think of this where someone has been arrested by the police and after arrest, they have found a way to escape; or perhaps someone who […]

This debate about police legal duties in mental health wards continues: I’m on a train to London as I type for further meetings to discuss the legal advice the College of Policing have received from a QC on this topic. We fed in a range of questions and concerns about the legal duties of police […]

A man was arrested recently for an alleged offence after he went in to a large store brandishing some weapons that he’d improvised from household items and this included several razor blades.  Quite naturally, it led to a 999 call for the police to attended and contain the situation before any was hurt. The man […]