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Police admit unlawful arrest of man heckling king's accession
The Guardian
|March 11, 2025
Police have admitted acting unlawfully in arresting a trainee Baptist minister who called out: "Who elected him?" at a local proclamation of the accession of King Charles III.
Symon Hill, 47, has been paid £2,500 in compensation from Thames Valley police over his arrest in September 2022. Hill was returning home from his church in Oxford on a Sunday morning, three days after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, when he found his way blocked by a procession to proclaim King Charles.
When Charles was declared our "only" king and "rightful liege lord", Hill called out from the back of the crowd: "Who elected him?"
This story is from the March 11, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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