There was shouting and screaming, and they pepper-sprayed my dad. The pepper spray went everywhere… So all of us kids had it on our hands and in our eyes… They tasered him at the same time. They then arrested him. And all of that took place in front of us kids.’
This is how one girl, Rebecca, described to the charity Children Heard and Seen how her father was arrested in her family home when she was aged about 11. The quote is included in a report by the Centre for Social Justice from March 2022, which states that up to 80,000 children experience a home raid by police each year.
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