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R v Fiak

Author / Contributor: Jeremy Johnson QC
14.04
R v Fiak
   
Issue: Whether an officer was acting in the execution of her duty when, having a power to arrest, she detained a person to conduct a preliminary investigation into his account without saying in terms that he was under arrest, and whether flooding a cell and soaking a blanket amounted to criminal damage to the cell and blanket
   
Court: Court of Appeal
   
Reference:   200406188C4
   
Neutral Citation:   [2005] EWCA Crim 2381
   
Judge(s): Judge and Hallett LJJ, Rafferty J
   
Date: 11 October 2005