The article makes It sound like it was a f-up and not intentional. Anyone know the whole story?
They locked him in a holding room and forgot he was there. He’d been arrested at a friend’s apartment during a drugs raid, and after interview, it was accepted that he had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and he was placed in the holding room pending release. Unfortunately, once the door was locked, nobody realised anybody was in there - because he hadn’t been charged with anything, there was no record he was still there, and people assumed he’d been released.