Activist bids to ‘arrest’ Ken Clarke

AN activist for campaign group “New Fathers 4 Justice” tried to “arrest” Justice Secretary Ken Clarke at his home yesterday.

A video, uploaded to YouTube, shows 43-year-old Garry Roe, dressed as Batman, confronting Mr Clarke at his home in West Bridgford, Nottingham.

It shows Mr Roe barracking Mr Clarke about the Family Justice Review using a megaphone while the Minister and his wife unload shopping from their car.

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New Fathers 4 Justice, which is not associated with or affiliated to Fathers 4 Justice, said Mrs Clarke intervened and prevented them from filming an attempted citizen’s arrest of the Justice Secretary on behalf of all children stopped from seeing their fathers due to non-enforced contact orders.

The video shows the Clarkes pulling up in their car and Mr Roe, from Heanor, Derbyshire, shouting: “How come the Family Review has been kept a secret and not put in the media? How come, Mr Clarke, it states quite clearly in that review that fathers will not be given equal or shared rights over their children?

“Isn’t that against the law, Mr Clarke, gender discrimination?”

The YouTube video shows Mr Clarke telling Mr Roe: “The Norgrove report was not reported because it wasn’t regarded as newsworthy, nothing to do with me.

“It’s a perfectly open process, there’s going to be a report in due course. I don’t think you will alter the law in the way you want.”

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