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Nailed! Security guard and three police officers interrogated grammar girl who painted one fingernail in Boots
Neil Sears
DailyMail
Friday, July 18, 2008
Millions of schoolgirls – and plenty of grown women – have tried out cosmetics on themselves in shops before deciding whether to buy.
So when grammar school girl Hannah Gilbert, 12, popped into Boots on only her second trip into town by herself, she thought nothing of painting a single thumb with nail polish to see how it looked.
But her shopping expedition turned into a nightmare when a security guard suddenly appeared and told her that if she failed to buy the product she would be guilty of theft.
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Tearful Hannah, a member of a Christian youth fellowship group, did not have enough money to pay for the £6.29 peach-coloured Revlon polish – so was ordered into an office to wait for the police.
An hour later, three officers arrived to interrogate her, even though a check on her lawabiding family’s records revealed no evidence of any criminal history.
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And it was only when the frightened girl’s parents Barry, 57, an engineer, and Cheryl, a 46-year-old nurse, hurried to the shop to pay for the nail polish that she was finally freed.
Mr and Mrs Gilbert have spoken of their disgust at the ‘heavy handed’ treatment of their daughter, demanded an apology, and vowed never to shop in Boots again.
They said they were astonished to be told in the course of the incident that as Hannah was over ten she could be forcibly restrained – even though she had made no attempt to escape.
Hannah, a pupil at Folkestone School for Girls who lives with her parents and brother Steven, 16, in St Mary’s Bay in Kent, is still traumatised by her experience.
It took place last week when she had a day off school while her teachers were undergoing training. Hannah said: ‘I went into the shop and saw a nail polish which I thought looked all right. There were no testers so I put a tiny bit on my thumbnail.
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