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Couple arrested after medic mistakes TV remote for a gun

Medics went to help the woman suffering from a panic attack and the man was watching TV with a remote in his hand, which medics thought was a firearm

DailyMail

ENGLAND — A couple were arrested at gunpoint when armed officers raided their home after a paramedic mistook their TV remote for a gun and reported them.

Michelle Malone, 46, and Keith Abrahams, 44, were bundled into a police van in the middle of the night and locked in a cell, before being questioned for four hours.

They were eventually released without charge after a paramedic, who had attended the address to help Michelle who suffered a panic attack, thought the remote was a firearm and called police. The pair said they were surrounded by 10 armed officers wearing body armour, eight uniformed police as well as a dog handler at 1am in their Hereford flat the next morning.

Full story: Couple kept in the cells for four hours after being arrested in their bedroom by armed police when a paramedic mistook TV remote for a gun