This morning Alan Rusbridger received a police caution for ‘illegal use of a tripod’ on Hampstead Heath. The Guardian editor has since written a blog detailing his brush with the law.
The London police have been trying to nick an editor for years. Today they got one – me http://t.co/IatiJR0ELR
— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) March 12, 2015
The incident began when a man took offence at photos Rusbridger was taking with David Levene.
‘He ran down the hill shouting that I had no right to take pictures and I’d better effing delete them. As he got nearer he became a rather large and shouty speck, sweat beading on his bald head as he bellowed in my face.
We were effing out of order. It was illegal to take effing pictures here and if I didn’t delete the effing picture he’d effing call the police. He was really quite menacing – in the manner, say, of a nineties gangster movie.’
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