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Unwarranted: A troubling London police probe into one of their own is the latest exclusive investigation by The London Free Press. The three-part series by Randy Richmond and Dale Carruthers is based on legal documents, court testimony and interviews with those involved. This is the introduction:

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A London police constable is suing his own force and eight colleagues for more than $650,000 after being cleared of criminal charges in an investigation slammed by a judge for “deliberate, serious violations” of his rights by London police officers.

Police ignored the limits of a court-issued search warrant, seized things they had no business taking, misled a justice of the peace after the fact, and later misled a courtin a bid to justify their actions, a judge ruled in a condemnation that found police went on “a massive fishing expedition” that, in effect, would allow them “to look for a shotgun in a pill bottle.”

“These violations were not minor, understandable or inadvertent in nature. Rather they were deliberate and serious,” Justice Lucy Glenn ruled.