On Our Advice Community Resolution Refused West Midlands Police No Further Action

No Further Action Against Nurse – Common Assault Football Club Self Defence – Bournville Lane Police Station 2024

Our client was contacted by officers regarding an incident she was involved in at her daughter’s football club after a man approached her young daughter and started calling her names. Our client confronted the man and was met with a tirade of verbal abuse and threats, which resulted in our client pushing the man back in self-defence to create space between them. She was reassured by police officers at the scene that she was the victim in the situation, but was later contacted the next week and informed that she was under investigation for common assault.

The police officer offered our client a community resolution to deal with the matter as a quick out-of-court disposal. It was implied that this was a ‘good deal’ for our client because it would not give her a criminal record. However, our client was reluctant to accept any form of disposal because she had acted in self-defence and therefore denied common assault. She worked in a regulated front line NHS role.

Luckily, our client contacted us immediately and instructed us on a private basis to advise her on her legal position. Maeve Carroll attended a consultation meeting with the client to gain detailed instructions on the incident and subsequent contact from the police, before getting in touch with the officer in charge of our client’s case. We explained to the officer that our client denied the offence and therefore would not be accepting a community resolution. The police then informed us that no further action would be taken against our client.

Our client was a nurse with no criminal record and thus it was crucial that she was able to preserve this, especially given her innocence in this matter. She was extremely grateful to hear that the matter was at an end and that she contacted us for advice rather than accepting the community resolution