Published:
4:00 PM May 13, 2021
The unofficial notice that could lead to a charge of impersonation of a police officer.
- Credit: Suffolk Police
Police have warned that a frustrated resident who issued fake parking tickets in streets near Stowmarket railway station that they could be arrested.
The person responsible for the illegal leaflets is being warned they could be arrested for impersonating a police officer after the Suffolk Constabulary masthead was used on the top of the notices.
They appeared on cars in the Hamilton Way area near the station - and threatened people who had parked on pavements with a £1,000 fine for obstruction. But by using the police masthead to make it look like an official letter, whoever produced them fell foul of the Police Act 1966.
Brian and Maggie Dyer on their wedding day in Ipswich in 1961
- Credit: Brian and Maggie Dyer
The couple married at the then Ipswich Register Office in Elm Street on May 13, 1961. Mrs Dyer was expecting their oldest child, Terry. It was a very different time, she said. My father said it would never last, and my mother told everybody the baby was early, but really he was full term!
Mr Dyer worked in the print room at the Ipswich Star and East Anglian Daily Times for 20 years, until he took early retirement at 55 due to ill health, and also worked for the Gas Board and Volvo.
Mr Reynolds was handcuffed and placed in a police van, then became unwell while on journey to the police investigation centre. The van was stopped, an ambulance was called and he was taken to hospital, where he died on February 16. Jurors, who reached a lengthy narrative conclusion guided by 15 questions, found that Mr Reynolds would have lived if he had not been restrained. They also found there were missed opportunities to save Mr Reynolds, noting if Pontins staff or police recognised he was unresponsive, placed him in the recovery position and called an ambulance he would have survived.
Paul Reynolds with his partner Carrie Bennett. Paul was held in a prone position for around 11 minutes with a knee to his back after an initial neck hold
Undated family handout photo of Paul Reynolds with his partner Carrie Bennett. Mr Reynolds died after he was restrained at a Pontins holiday park after his partner accosted a guest whose child was allegedly hitting their son, an inquest heard. Issue date: Monday April 19, 2021.
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And following the hearing, it has been confirmed that following an investigation from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) that two of the police officers that responded to the incident will face a gross incompetency hearing as a result of their actions that day.
Police officers performed CPR on him in a police van and called for an ambulance after arresting him, but the inquest concluded that they had missed the opportunity to save his life by intervening before his arrest.