Water company CEO placed under citizen's arrest by group of women activists

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00:00Mark. Hello, Mark Thurston. Hello, my name's Isabel. I'm actually here to place you under

00:06citizen's arrest. Excuse me, I'm trying to get some work. Oh, I'm so sorry. I know you are,

00:09but this is a very serious matter. The charge is actually public nuisance, and we have reason

00:16to believe that you are on your way to commit further crimes of public nuisance. So, you

00:22are safe. The police have been called and are on their way, and we just request that

00:27you wait here with us now until they come. It's not possible, I'm afraid. I need to

00:30get to work. I'm really sorry. I do understand that. My colleagues tried to do this to me

00:34the other day up at my office. Yes, yes. So, I've seen this number four. Yeah, it's not

00:39a start. I'm sorry. I do have a right to hurry up to, under the police, section 24A of the

00:47Police and Evidence. I'm going to call the police because you're not. Yes, please do. Please

00:50do. You can also call anyone else to tell them that you may well be late this morning. I do

00:57understand that this is inconvenient for you, but I'm afraid the crime of public nuisance

01:01is very serious as well.

01:14The reason that we've re-arrested you is because we didn't hear back from the police within the

01:20agreed time scale. So, therefore, we had no option than to perform the citizen's arrest

01:26again. We do have the right under the section 24A of the Police and Evidence Bill to 1984

01:33to make a citizen's arrest, and we are exercising that right in light of your crimes of public

01:39nuisance as your role as CEO of Anglican Water. I mean, we are just ordinary members of the

01:45public, and people are very angry and upset about the damage that is being done to our waterways.

01:52We've tried everything. We've tried everything else, every other possible way of getting

01:57Anglican Water to clean up their waterways, and right now there is a pipe, a broken pipe,

02:04leaking sewage onto South End Beach, and what are we supposed to do? We do have the right to

02:09perform a citizen's arrest, which we have done today, and then we come to the police and they

02:14say you can't do anything. I'll take this and I'll pass it on to the Home Office for us.

02:17I'll pass it on to the Home Office to investigate the force. Okay. Okay?