A UK man committed suicide after being wrongly identified a pedophile by police in a charging file. Brian Temple of Redcar, England, had actually been apprehended by the Cleveland Police for presumably stealing a package of Greggs sausage rolls on June 8, 2017.
The 34-year-old did not recognize that his release documents mistakenly stated he had actually been jailed for something much more ominous and revealed them to his then-girlfriend. The files, it ended up, declared that he had actually been apprehended for “inciting sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl.”
Temple’s girlfriend started to spread out the rumor that he was a pedophile. This caused extreme reaction against him, which included being “verbally abused in the street, attacked in his own home and hit around the head by a golf club,” according to a report from Teeside Live.
Six months later on, on December 31, 2017, he killed himself.
Witnesses described what Temple went through throughout a hearing at Teesside Coroner’s Court.
“Accounts from family members at the inquest described how he descended into heavy drinking and drug use. A coroner said that the toxicology report found 134 milligrams of alcohol in addition to a cocktail of cocaine, Diazepam, Zopiclone and Pregablin in his system when he died, although his death resulted from hanging,” Newsweek reports.
His family has maintained that he was a happy man prior to the arrest and the defective documentation. Temple’s sibling informed the court that he had actually constantly been anti-drug, however, was spiralizing into abusing them to handle the “constant attacks and assaults in the months leading up to his passing.”
According to his sister-in-law, the file was in his pocket when he committed suicide. She stated that the cops knew that he was currently battling with psychological health problems at the time of his arrest which they had a “duty of care” that they failed to uphold.
Investigator Sergeant Agar of the Cleveland Police informed the inquest that the sheet was“a genuine human error,” according to the Newsweek report.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct explained the error as “incredibly unusual” and started an examination to make certain absolutely nothing like this ever occurs once again.
The investigation is still in progress.
H/T Timcast
