Why is this illegal?
Are you a magistrate or a lawyer?
Under what where they arrested?
If its illegal what have you done to secure the freedom under Habeas Corpus?

this is a typically one sided view,
from people who don't know the facts
or even care to find them out,
have the police suddenly learnt magic
and can now make people disappear,
hopefully they will use it to make the ill
informed publishers of the above vanish without trace!

I would assume that the legality of the arrest in in question due to their status as squatters. Currently in the UK squatting is not a criminal offence, it is a civil matter. This means that the appropriate legal action would be to issue a claim for possession in the County Court or in the High Court, or produce to us a written statement or certificate in terms of S.12 A Criminal Law Act, 1977 (as inserted by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994).

Under "Part II, Criminal Law Act 1977, As amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994" if someone is occupying a property as a squatter then it is actually a criminal offence to enter or attempt to enter the property without their permission. It would therefore appear from the information above that the only criminal act was actually performed by the police.

Technically entering the above property forcefully without the occupiers permission should be punishable by upto 6 months imprisonment and/or a fine of upto £5,000, although as the offence was performed by police officers I doubt this will happen.

Dear Mr AA,

Since when is one sided to ask legitamate questions about a puported 'news' article?

Its not good karma to wish someone to be 'disappeared' by the police.

Dear Mr Legal Eagle

Police have the power to enter a property without warrant under a number of circumstancesr regardless of whether you are a squatter or not, being a squatter does not give you some magical legal blanket which prevents arrest.

i wish SQUATTER would get his facts straight, he is clearly misinformed, right facts not rubbish.