Flower picking an offence

in the park.
Sienna Marengo, four, was playing with sister India, 10, and step-sister Olivia, six, in Whitecliff Park, Poole, Dorset, when they were spotted by a passing Peter Adams, a Tory councillor.
He reported the family to police and officers arrived to warn the family they risked being arrested for theft and criminal damage.
Sienna was left so upset by the incident that she has refused to return to the park, fearing her family may be ‘taken away’.
Jane Errington with her daughter Olivia, six. The youngster was plucking flowers with step-sisters Sienna and India in a park in Poole, Dorset, when Ms Errington and her partner Marc Marengo were approached by two police officers. They warned them they could be arrested for taking the flowers
The girls’ mother Jane Errington, (35), and her partner Marc Marengo, (49), were left fuming at the ‘heavy-handed’ response and accused police of wasting their own time.
Miss Errington claimed the police officers observed the family for 20 minutes before they were spoken to.
She said Sienna has been left too upset to return to the public park in case her family “would be taken away by the police”. – Daily Mail.