Talk EXCLUSIVE: Leeds resident Nicola Wilcox claims she was a victim of two-tier policing, after being arrested at a riot while handing out ice lollies to officers. “The men started to pull their hoods up, the police told me to go home or they'd arrest me. I couldn't!“ Nicola goes on to tearfully recount her experience of being jailed: “It was the most hideous, alien experience to me. I've never been in a police station, I didn't even know why I was there!“ Sir Keir Starmer has rejected claims of “two-tier policing” in Britain after Nigel Farage suggested riots over the last week have been dealt with more harshly than other recent unrest and protests. The Prime Minister flatly denied Mr Farage’s claims as a “non-issue” and insisted policing was carried out “without fear or favour”. Rioting has spread across English towns and cities over the last week, beginning in Southport after last Monday’s stabbing in the Merseyside town
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