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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Officers disciplined after 'sham wedding' arrests


Three police officers in Londonderry have been disciplined for arresting a couple on their wedding day, after wrongly suspecting they were involved in a sham marriage.

The Police Ombudsman had ruled that Neil McElwee from Castlederg and his pregnant Chinese fiance Yanan Sun, had been unlawfully arrested and detained by the police.

The police wrongly arrested the couple, moments before the ceremony at the Guildhall in Derry.
PSNI Inspector John Burrows said the police had acted in good faith, but sometimes they got things wrong.

The couple were taken to a police station, forced to dress in forensic clothing and separated.

They were held for five hours and only released when their solicitor got involved. They were married the next day in Castlederg.  More

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