Man arrested for stealing sausage rolls killed himself after police labelled him a paedophile

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. That's pretty irrelevant

It's not that the people around him were all checking the latest police records before making the threats and assaults. They'd just heard the initial "his girlfriend saw it in the release papers". As the article says:

He also reported threats and assaults to the police, the court heard. But visits by police welfare officers to Temple’s home only fuelled unfounded suspicions about him, the court was told.

So he would have explained it to the police. But even if they had reissued correct release papers, it's not a situation where he can tell anyone "hang on a minute, I've got proper release papers here about sausage roll theft, ignore what you heard earlier, look, the police even gave me a written statement saying it had been a mistake". Vigilantes don't pause to ask the victim if he has evidence he's innocent.