Query which is bugging me. I was following a complaint from my Ex Wife arrested by the police for Assault, as I was at hospital awaiting treatment for an injury inflicted on me by someone else and was advised I would have to come back the following morning to have the wound tended to under general Anaesthetic after calling this in the officers concerned dearrested me and said I would be called in for interview later in the week.
I attended the said interview had a duty solicitor present for the interview and was subsequently interviewed at length about the alledged assault.
I was then told I was being taken to court and was charged with Harassment on 2 specific dates one being the date of the alledged assault and one a date some 4 weeks prior.
My query is at no point was I rearrested or had the usual statement about my rights read to me therefore was this a procedural error being I had been dearrested for the original charge of Assault which had no basis in fact and I was never subsequently arrested merely attended voluntarily for interview?
I should also point out that I have never received a charge sheet from the Police at the interview and indeed on the basis that they were approaching the CPS whether it was in public interest to take the Assault matter to court.
The next I get is a summons to appear in magistrates for a charge of harassment without violence.
TIA
I attended the said interview had a duty solicitor present for the interview and was subsequently interviewed at length about the alledged assault.
I was then told I was being taken to court and was charged with Harassment on 2 specific dates one being the date of the alledged assault and one a date some 4 weeks prior.
My query is at no point was I rearrested or had the usual statement about my rights read to me therefore was this a procedural error being I had been dearrested for the original charge of Assault which had no basis in fact and I was never subsequently arrested merely attended voluntarily for interview?
I should also point out that I have never received a charge sheet from the Police at the interview and indeed on the basis that they were approaching the CPS whether it was in public interest to take the Assault matter to court.
The next I get is a summons to appear in magistrates for a charge of harassment without violence.
TIA
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