A father was surrounded by 10 police officers, handcuffed and held in a cell for five hours for driving a ‘stolen’ car which was actually his own.
Stunned Spencer Schofield had parked in town on a shopping trip when two policewomen knocked on his window and said his green BWM 320i had been reported stolen.
The father-of-one asked officers to drive him four minutes home so they could see all the documentation. But instead he was held in the cells for more than five hours until they could formally verify what he was saying was true.
Mr Schofield, 30,said today: ‘It was completely over the top, especially when I could have resolved it in five minutes.’
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