'All hell broke loose': Oxford graduate held at gunpoint by police

guardian.co.uk     09-Jul-2008            

An innocent traveller who was detained by police at gunpoint in a case of mistaken identity has described how he "stepped off the train and into a really bad dream". Nzube Udezue, a 21-year-old recent graduate from Oxford University, was ordered to the ground, handcuffed and arrested by a team of armed police officers at Bournemouth station on Saturday, in front of dozens of fellow travellers. Writing on his blog, Udezue, known to friends by his rap name, Zuby, said officers told him that, as a black man wearing a black T-shirt with orange writing, he matched the description of a man involved in a suspected firearms incident in another town earlier in the day. "When I woke up this Saturday morning, I could happily say that I'd managed to get through (almost) 22 years of my life without any real incident with the police. I... [read full story]                    


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