Free Republic

When two policemen turned up unannounced at Alan Rawlinson's home asking to speak to his young son, the company director feared something serious had happened. So he was astounded when the officers detailed 11-year-old George's apparent crime - calling one of his schoolfriends 'gay'. They said primary school pupil, George, was being investigated for a 'very serious' homophobic crime after using the comment in an e-mail to a 10-year-old classmate. ['Terrified': George Rawlinson with his mother Gaynor, who is a magistrate] But now his parents have hit out at the police, who they accused of being heavy-handed and pandering to...