Wrongful Arrest

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The police know your identity and address and they also know enough about the identity of the person with the footage to know they had no business being there. If I were to take a guess you were... conversing with a drug dealer or some other similar miscreant who also happens to be a police informant.
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[Ste]

You're going to have difficulty playing the innocent victim card as you approached them and they've got a video of you shouting and swearing and being aggressive.

You need decent legal advice otherwise you're going to be fucked in October. Give them all the details, do not drip feed the details to them like you have been here. As much as they'll be used to needing to coax information from their clients, it's in your best interests to provide them with all the salient facts up front.

I hope that the duty solicitor at the police station already advised you to make detailed notes about everything that happened prior to and after the video recording.

You could ask your neighbours to see if anyone has doorbell camera footage or if any of their cars in the residents only car park have sentry mode security that recorded the incident. I use the word "could" because you don't want footage to surface if it's not going to help you.

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You're a twat for going at them with profanity and loudness before they'd even had a chance to explain themselves. How were they to know you weren't about to start kicking their car in? Never mind if they were there to drop off some 'produce' to a punter and you were bringing it on top.

And then, to top it all off, you whined to the old bill. Don't write a cheque you can't cash.
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I find the best way to get people to understand their actions is to look at it from the other persons perspective.

So you parked in a car park and nipped inside to see a mate, a couple of your mates stayed in the car in case of any problems, bit of a dodgy area.
Your mates messaged you to get back to the car, that someone was banging on the windows kind of aggressively.
You head back to the car and take your phone out to record as you know people will lie to the Police. As you approach the car the man angrily comes towards you pointing his finger and swearing, you don't know exactly what was said, just the body language.
As you get closer to the car the man comes closer still in an aggressive fashion so you put your hand on his chest, just below his neck and push back as hard as you can taking him off his feet without leaving a specific injury such as a punch would, a purely defence move.

Back to you, there is absolutely no way the man who pushed you down could be charged with assault, it was by your own description purely self-defence. I know this, a few years ago I was the man who put you down.
I warned the person to back off several times, he didn't, he got closer, he went down.

Time to swallow your pride and accept you were in the wrong.

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[A100man]

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Quick update for anyone that's interested.

The CPS charged me with 2 accounts of assault over this incident a few weeks ago and I went to court on Monday this week to face those charges. Plead not guilty, obviously...because I strongly believe I didn't do anything wrong, so now I've got a trial upcoming in Feb next year and my stress levels have gone through the roof.
My solicitor has talked me through what he thinks might happen and his view is that a custodial sentence is unlikely even if the Judge decides I'm guilty of an offence, but he has also warned me that getting sent down for a stretch can't be ruled out

Never in my wildest imagination did I ever think people could be sent to prison just for saying a few swear words and being a concerned resident actively in charge of a neighbourhood watch scheme.
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In my layman's opinion you need to introduce an element of doubt into the case. What's on video is indisputable but what happened before they started recording could be key and for the prosecution to prove that beyond reasonable doubt will be tricky.

You were scared and that's why you behaved the way you did. You confronted them because your didn't want your property to be damaged or stolen. Just the previous night you had witnessed people behaving suspiciously looking around vehicles in the private carpark who ran off when confronted, I presume you were hoping these people would also leave the area when confronted.

The way the "driver of the car appeared out of nowhere" only increased your fear because at that point you were no longer just concerned about damage to property but you were scared for your own safety and that's when things escalated. You recognise that what's shown on video put you in a bad light but that video doesn't show the whole story.

If when you confronted the people in the car you think you saw one of them reaching towards the door pockets then it's not unreasonable to have thought that weapons could be involved.

Of course all of the above would fall apart if it transpires that the driver was carrying a food delivery bag and had been delivering pizza to your neighbours.

None of this should be taken as legal advice and you should not lie in court however it's on the prosecution to prove beyond reasonable doubt. You'll be wasting your time and the courts time if you try to dispute what's shown on video but what happened prior to that can't be proved.

Go find yourself the best solicitor, ffs I'm better than the solicitor who's been representing your interests so far and I'm not even a solicitor. Get a good solicitor and let them build your defence. You're a good citizen who didn't want to become a victim of crime or for any of your neighbours to become victims of crime, you were scared and that's why you acted the way you did.

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