Hero Might be charged-Intervened With A Gang Vandalizing
Have-a-go hero told he might be charged after tackling yob
A groundsman who collared a vandal has received an apology from police after he was told he could
be charged with assault by a 999 worker.
John Harvey bravely intervened after a gang of 12 yobs started vandalising a cricket club where he works in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and grabbed the main culprit.
The groundsman at Linden Park Cricket Club called police as he held the teenager telling cops he had caught the yob in the act and they should send an officer to arrest the teen.
But as the 47-year-old was desperately trying to keep hold of the teen as the other yobs – armed with sticks surrounded him – the police operator warned him he could be charged with assault.
Mr Harvey said: “I expected to be thoroughly supported by the police as a civilian and not rebuked.
“I was expecting a response car immediately. I had restrained someone in the act of vandalism and she said ‘I must warn you, you are leaving yourself open to an assault charge’.”
He added: “I told her ‘You’d better be quick, there are 12 of them. I might be one of your statistics’.
“She was reading screen prompts and insisting I gave my name and address and I said ‘With 12 kids in front of me?’
“That sort of thing has to be put by the wayside. I could have been in the morgue by now.”
Mr Harvey eventually hung up on the 999 operator and let the teen go as he was threatened by the other yobs – but put in a complaint to police about the attitude of the operator last week.
And this week police apologised and said the 999 worker had been ‘spoken to’.
Chief Inspector Simon Black apologised and said: “The call taker who spoke with Mr Harvey acted correctly in the advice she gave but has been advised she could have shown a little more empathy to Mr Harvey’s situation.”
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