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A father claims he was arrested and taken to court for saying "no s**t" to a policeman.

Rob Warner, 45, says he was trying to pick his daughter up from her school when he couldn’t find her.

Mr Warner, of Alvaston, says he became angry with school staff that she was missing.

A nearby police officer attempted to get involved. Mr Warner said the officer said: “I can see you’re angry,” to which Mr Warner says he replied with “no s**t!”.

No action was taken against Mr Warner, a freelance legal advisor, until three weeks later when he received a letter asking him to attend a voluntary interview with police in relation to a breach of public order.

When he did not go to that interview, he said he received a postal summons to magistrates’ court some weeks later.

(Image: Rob Warner)

Armed police eventually turned up at his door with a battering ram to carry out a court-ordered warrant for his arrest, which he filmed on his Youtube channel.

In total, five police were involved in taking Mr Warner to court.

But the case was not upheld and magistrates dismissed it. Mr Warner said it should never have gone to court in the first place.

He said: “I was at an induction day for my daughter at her school. I turned up to collect her and she was missing.

“I was beside myself with worry and I was furious that the teachers had not kept a list of the people who were there taking children.

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“I told them ‘you are incompetent’ then all of a sudden the PC turned up out of nowhere.

“He said ‘I can see you are angry’ and I said ‘no s**t I’m angry’. At the time, no one seemed bothered and no one complained about it at all.

“Not a single person from the school complained.

“The first I know about this is over three weeks later when the PC knocks on my door asking me to attend a voluntary interview.”

Mr Warner said he was asked to attend the interview for an alleged breach of the Public Order Act 1986.

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Under Section 5 of that act, it is illegal to use “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour”.

Mr Warner didn’t attend the interview as he said he was not legally required to, meaning police did not have a chance to question him.

He said: “So the police left it for another two or three weeks and then I get a postal requisition for summons to court.

“Then four chaps turn up at my door with a battering ram. They refused to show a warrant but they were going to batter down my door so I was arrested and taken to the police station.

Mr Warner was dealt with at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court on November 2, after being held in prison cells for hours.

He said: “The magistrates were very reasonable. I could not fault the court – they were wonderful.

“They said: ‘Your behaviour was perfectly reasonable given the circumstances.’

“The officer who arrested me said that other people had complained but it was unused evidence so it didn’t stand up.”

Mr Warner runs the website Crimebodge, which offers advice and legal services to people struggling with police prosecutions.

He has been studying common law, case law and police law for the past six years, although he is not formally legally-trained.

He said: “ It’s all about protecting people from abuse of power from the police. I love doing it.”

A Derbyshire police spokesperson said: “Following an incident at the school on July 3, 2018, Mr Warner was charged with a section 5 public order offence.

“Derbyshire Constabulary’s role is to place this evidence before the court and it is the court’s role to decide the outcome of any case that comes before it.

“We do not comment on the outcome of court cases.”

The spokesperson also confirmed that the reason armed police were called was because they are the officers who have the quickest access to the equipment required to force entry to a property.

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