Mail Online

Ex-No10 aide says street ‘rangers’ assaulted black son, 15

By Mark Duell and Darren Boyle

A FORMER No10 adviser demanded a review of private security guards yesterday after her black 15-year-old son was pinned down and handcuffed in a Superdrug store.

Kirsty Buchanan made the appeal after a video of her son being restrained went viral on social media. The teenager – later arrested by police in Chichester, West Sussex, on suspicion of assault – was ‘sat on’ by the guards, she claimed.

Ms Buchanan said of the video: ‘This is my 15-year-old black son who was followed while he shopped for shampoo by two council workers called rangers. He was assaulted by them, then sat on and handcuffed by them. When Sussex Police arrived, guess who they arrested?’

Superdrug said female staff

‘Guess who they arrested?’

were assaulted and the branch had to close due to damage caused during the incident on Wednesday. It said: ‘We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to violence.’

The two guards are ‘rangers’ from Blayde Security and employed by the Chichester Business Improvement District (BID). They act as ‘a reassuring presence for those in the front line of petty crime’.

Sussex Police said a boy of 15 from Worthing and a 16-yearold boy from Chichester were arrested on suspicion of assault. Ms Buchanan, a former adviser to Theresa May and Liz Truss, claimed to the Daily Mirror: ‘What I have been told is the ranger pushed him and my son pushed back... they put plastic handcuffs on him.’

Chichester BID and Blayde Security said they were ‘cooperating fully with police’.

Snp Civil War

en-gb

2023-03-24T07:00:00.0000000Z

2023-03-24T07:00:00.0000000Z

https://mailonline.pressreader.com/article/281659669289248

dmg media (UK)