An olf lady spent an hour in police cells after she refused
to give back a young neighbor's ball who kicked his football
into the garden of Dorothy Wilson. The boy asked back the ball but Mrs Wilson refused, and the boy's mother called the police .
The asked Mrs Wilson to return the ball but she
refused. All the suggestions that a woman in her sixties should act her age were
ignored. The police officer arrested Mrs Wilson and took her to the police station. She was locked up in a cell for more than an hour. She was released on
police bail but there were suggestions that she might be charged with wasting
police time. Mrs Wilson doesn't think she should have returned the ball. She says a lot of ball landed in her garden over the past three years, since the
Simms family moved in, and she kept all of them. Anthony's mother says
that Anthony should have been more careful, but that Mrs Wilson should have
given the balls back. She was angry and this was why she called the police. Looking back, she now thinks she shouldn't have done this because it was possible Mrs. Wilson to be arrested on suspicion of theft.
