A terminally-ill lecturer has been charged for utilizing threatening behaviour when he was being arrested for mooning at a pace digicam.
Darrell Meekcom, 55, has a bucket listing of issues he needs to do earlier than he dies from a number of system atrophy.
Amongst them was to moon at a pace digicam which acquired him arrested at his dwelling in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, in November.
He was later bailed after which interviewed below warning in January. He has now been charged over his response to being arrested and can seem earlier than magistrates in Might.
Darrell claims the fees are ‘trumped up’ and that police are ‘on the lookout for any little factor to get me on’.
He stated: ‘That is an escalation of what they’ve performed. You possibly can’t hold altering it and altering it till you discover one thing that matches.
‘What are they going to give you subsequent. They're actually on the lookout for any little factor to get me on.
‘I pulled my trousers down and mooned at a pace digicam. That’s all I did. ‘They're primarily admitting that there was no offence dedicated within the first place.
‘There's nothing on this cost sheet saying I dedicated any preliminary offence in any respect.
‘Why had been they kicking residing daylights of me within the again backyard if there was no offence dedicated?
‘So all that is after they bashed my doorways in, inflicting 1000's of kilos price of injury, for no good purpose.
‘The police escalated it and I'm livid about it. I by no means thought it will get thus far.
‘It's a case of bullying and they're making an attempt to get something they will presumably get to get me.
‘I dread to assume how a lot taxpayer’s cash it's costing to do that.
‘My well being is not going to, and has not, acquired higher since all this began. The stress of all this has made my well being worse. It's unbelievable.’
Darrell, who lives with spouse Sarah, 36, and their two daughters, beforehand advised how he was left surprised when cops turned up outdoors their dwelling.
He had dropped his trousers at a cellular pace digicam van on Stourbridge Street in Kidderminster whereas his spouse went to purchase some bread from a close-by Tesco Categorical.
Cell phone footage filmed by Sarah, a nurse, exhibits Darrell calmly telling officers: ‘I’m terminally ailing, I gained’t be capable to breathe like this.
‘That is ridiculous – I moonied a pace digicam. I moonied a pace digicam.’
Wheelchair-user Darrell – who additionally has Parkinson’s Illness and coronary heart and kidney issues – added: ‘I used to be merely gobsmacked. It’s actually all simply baffling.
‘I really feel like I've been abused. It was outrageous bullying. They may have killed me very simply.
‘I acquired out the automotive and flashed my bum. I pulled my trousers up and acquired again within the automotive. I didn’t assume something of it. It was a superb snigger.
‘I got here dwelling and inside 20 minutes there was a police van outdoors. I used to be too scared to exit. It was fairly scary actually.’
A police spokesperson stated: ‘As authorized proceedings are actually lively, West Mercia Police can't make any additional remark presently’.
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