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Crime spree caught on FOIA Act

Girl, 2, investigated by police for 'vandalism' after being accused of hitting car with stick

The vehicle’s owner called the police claiming the child had deliberately damaged his car.

Details of the child’s brush with the law last June emerged in a request to Wiltshire Police under the Freedom of Information Act.

Michelle Elliott, founder of Kidscape, said: ‘You cannot have a child of two as a suspect. It is insane. It is stupid. This is the most bizarre thing I have heard of. It makes a mockery of the law.’

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling added: ‘This is just madness.’

A spokesman for Wiltshire Police said: ‘Under the Home Office rules officers must attend where an allegation has been made – irrespective of the accused person’s age.
‘They are obligated to do so and they are also required to record the allegation as a crime.

‘But if the person is under the age of criminal responsibility they cannot be arrested. Had the little girl been ten years old, she could have been arrested.’

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220645/Two-year-old-girl-investigate
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‘But if the person is under the age of criminal responsibility they cannot be arrested. Had the little girl been ten years old, she could have been arrested.’

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