The story of a man who ruined his life with a typo

ByThe Next Web

Nigel Lang, who worked as a recovery worker who supports young people fighting drug addiction, is arrested by the police with sudden remorse without any remembrance at all in 2011. Mr. Lang was arrested for possessing child pornography photographs, but this is a misidentified arrest, and it seems that "Type mistake" was hiding behind it.

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In May 2011, a police officer working in Hertfordshire Police in the UK said, "Identified an IP address that shared more than 100 child pornographic photos in April of that year" and contact a colleague in the state of South Yorkshire Did. At that time, the police officer in South Yorkshire received the IP address of the suspect, but this is different from the original one due to a typing error, "It corresponds to the Internet account that Lang's wife holds" I got it.

Whether or not the wife was a white woman is unknown, but it was not Mrs. Lang that she was arrested.

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Mr. Lang said that he was only able to tell myself that he was arrested, "I can not find anything because I do not do anything." Mr. Lang who left his house for several weeks after the arrest, but the young son seems to have always cried because "I do not know why my father suddenly came out"? Three weeks after the arrest, the police return the computer of Mr. Lang who confiscated, and it proves that he is completely innocent. But this event has a serious impact on Mr. Lang's spirit.

"Because of this incident, I can no longer return to my workplace.The recovery worker was the best work in my life and I felt it was working really well.However, I was afraid to work with a young woman as I told someone that I am doing this work to hurt a young woman (due to mistaken arrest) "Mr. Lang talked about revealing that the surrounding eyes changed completely due to misunderstanding arrests and that Lang himself can not keep up with the change.

Eleven months have passed since the arrest, Lang appealed South Yorkshire Police Department without knowing why he was arrested mistakenly for himself. Because the Internet account that she shared child pornography was from a white woman who is a partner of Mr. Lang, she was supposed to be arrested because "he was a black man," Lang said He seems to have felt. In the end, the lawsuit will be dismissed, but during that process Lang knows for the first time that the Hertfordshire Police Department was involved in the incident.


Mr. Lang consulted the police as to whether the cause of the arrest could be "because the information provided by the Hertfordshire Police Department was erroneous" and whether it could be checked whether the provided information was wrong or not However, the police seems to have returned only the answer "It is impossible over time". However, when Mr. Lang contacted Hartfordshire State Police through a lawyer, he found out the fact that he was informing the wrong IP address.

"In order to know the mistakes of the police side, I needed to hire a lawyer, I cried for my innocence and asked for disclosure, but they said they were impossible, but the lawyer I was told that I can use it.This incident made me understand that the police did not care about my life at all ... In other words, the police do not care about ordinary people at all, "police Criticizing correspondence of the side. It was in 2014 that Mr. Lang officially received an apology from the Hartfordshire Police Department in writing.

After that, Mr. Lang sought for violation of data protection law and misidentified arrest, police assault, and compensation for illegal invasion which was enacted in 1998. And in October 2016, we settled with the Hartfordshire Police Department and we will receive damages of 60,000 pounds (about 8.4 million yen) and separate legal fees.

However, Mr. Lang says, "This is not enough money, I felt exhausted in the battle of six years.We did not get wages for two and half years, so I became inoperable after the incident "It is said that the police side's response is inadequate.

BySebastien Wiertz

In 2017, the Hertfordshire Police told the BBC "We mistakenly acknowledged the facts when we felt a misidentified arrest, but I apologized again for acknowledging the impact and I wanted to apologize again." Misidentified arrest is managed It is caused by the mistake above and I feel that lessons learned to prevent such a situation have been obtained in the future (a man who was arrested mistakenly was completely innocent and compensation was done justly " I am issuing a statement.

Mr. Lang said in March, 2017Interview with Buzzfeed NewsIn response to that, "I was unable to send ordinary days even though it was a trial by court,PedophileIt is necessary to appeal that it is not. I was a normal hardworking man, but I do not know what will happen to the future. Because I mistakenly arrested, I suffered from post traumatic stress disorder, my personality changed and I got very angry than before. I am suffering from sleep deprivation and began to watch over the surrounding eyes too much. "I talk about the tremendous damage that misidentified arrest has given to my life.