A British couple who were arrested for complaining about their child’s school in a WhatsApp group have revealed the messages that led to their insane incarceration.
As we highlighted earlier this week, Police arrested Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levin in front of their daughter on suspicion of malicious communications, harassment, and causing a nuisance on school property.
Mr Allen noted “we have never even been told what these communications were that were supposedly criminal, which is completely Kafkaesque.”
Now the messages have come to light, and they are completely innocuous.
The couple complained about the process school governors were undertaking to appoint a new headteacher, and were sent a letter by the school warning them to stop discussing it.
Following this, Levine texted the group saying “they think they have a right to control everyone” adding that parents are free to “discuss anything they like”.
She further ironically joked that the school would have them arrested, writing “Can you imagine what the ‘action’ is? Hello, 999, one of the school mums said something mean about me in a school mum WhatsApp group. Please can you arrest them?”
Allen added that “No public body has the power to control what people say about it.”
The Daily Mail noted that other parents in the group supported that sentiment.
https://modernity.news/2025/04/03/here-are-the-whatsapp-messages-those-british-parents-were-arrested-for/